http://ivn.us/2014/09/05/future-voting-decentralized-cryptographically-secure

Anyone see this? Bitshares mentioned a few paragraphs in, right under the first big quotes.

A few organizations are currently working to develop such decentralized, trustless voting applications. One of these groups is Follow My Vote, a first wave organization in a set of many that will present decentralized, blockchain-based voting solutions over the next few decades.

I recently had a chance to speak with CEO and founder of Follow My Vote, Adam Ernest, and he discussed his organization’s efforts and how the software will function.

“What’s really most important in any election is who counts the votes,” he said. “In other words, those who control the ballot box, meaning the person or persons counting the votes within the ballot box and reporting the vote totals of an election, are really the ones who control the outcome; whatever they say it is, it is.”

“The only way you can truly be assured that the reported results of an election are accurate is if you actually have the opportunity to audit the ballot box and count the votes yourself. It comes down to the honesty, transparency, and trust that our system provides, which the existing voting systems can’t offer. That’s the real benefit of decentralized voting applications.”
Follow My Vote is building their decentralized and anonymous voting platform in the form of a Distributed Autonomous Corporation (DAC) that runs on the BitShares platform.

All votes are recorded into the publicly verifiable transaction ledger and every participant can track their vote and see that it was applied correctly. Votes are verified for authenticity by a group of delegates prior to being recorded in the block chain.

Hey everyone. I'm looking for any technical info on TITAN that exists. A white paper would be awesome. So far I have found this.

https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit/wiki/AYNTK_TITAN


Any help is very much appreciated.

In one of the recent Lets Talk Bitcoin podcasts....

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/e71-blockchain-tools-and-litecoin-devs/#.Usc5P2RDuPA

Charlie Lee mentions someone who is starting a payment processor for people who want to stay entirely in crypto, but why use a company when you can use a protocol. This has got to be possible with DAC. Could the idea's in Keyhotee and Bitshares be leveraged to do something like this.

1. Allows Merchants to accept a wide variety of crypto's and crypo assets.
2. Converts them into bitcoin (or currency of choice).
3. Sends bitcoin to merchants wallet.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=532.msg6306#msg6306

Seems Bytemaster is more of a legend then I realized.

Ok, let me take a crack at this,

What if we had a DAC that allowed people to offer to teach, online and/or in their community, and provided easy ways to crowd fund classes and maintain reputations (maybe through keyhotee). I'm talking anything from a college professor deciding to ditch the antiquated education system and go lecture to a crowd indie style, to a guitar teacher doing one on one lessons to make some cash. Really if anyone is deemed proficient in something by the community they could offer to pass on their skills either for free or for profit. Basically a way for people to opt out of the current system where you need to first be admitted, and you are told what to learn, then get certain certificates. Sounds like the most straight forward and logical way to spread knowledge and reeducate the workforce during times of structural unemployment. Also a great way for people to make extra money while creating value for everyone. In the end we all benefit from a well educated society, and removing the barriers to that are a good thing. Also if you can develop a skill that people find valuable, and you can convey that skill in a way that creates value for society, you can now be back in the workforce, but maybe more of a grass root's, decentralized workforce.

I'm on mac and I downloaded the client but it is out of sync and has not connected to the network, is this normal?