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"The blockchain method primarily used by those engaging in cryptocurrency transactions is a decentralized mechanism where all the information is stored in blocks, can be viewed and altered by registered users. In the case of Sierra Leone elections, allows the votes to be seen by voters who are registered within the system, in the public ledgers, but only allowed authorized persons to make any changes, this, in turn, prevents the chances of fraud since the voting information is available to all the blockchain users."
I would personally like it if they would explain the mechanics of their so-called "blockchain" to us mortals.
As I understand a blockchain, it is an extensible data structure that (when used in a bitcoin context) incorporates sequentially applied, recursively structured self-referential checksum mechanisms to counter efforts at tampering with the contents of the blocks; usually, via recursive encryption.
~childo
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @05:54PM
A group of men was chatting near the entrance to an alleyway when they heard a woman screaming. They looked around and spotted a man on top of a woman in the alleyway next to them; he was beating and raping her. The group overheard the man say that he was doing this because the woman walked past him casually, and that he was going to let her off with a simple beating and violation. The men became furious.
How could someone do something like this!? All the men in the group thought that. They could not - would not - let this injustice stand. They needed to stop this travesty, here and now! Finally, the men's anger exploded and they charged at the rapist and took him down.
The rapist was viciously executed on the spot. His crime? Feminism. What sane person would let a woman who walked past a man casually off with a mere beating and raping? A feminist, that's who! As for the woman, she and her female family members were given the gift of beatings, rapings, and torture; their bloodcurdling screams continued for days before silence finally descended upon their wretched lives.
Naturally, the group of men became celebrated as heroes in their community.