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Bringing elections to the blockchain with "Decentralized Polls"

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Leofinace has been on a lot developments lately that I haven't really been abeg to keep up with due to increased responsibility in the offline space, my activities have mostly been about dishing out contents to avoid disappearing into the oblivion as things have really been heating up lately that we may be seeing usage and user surge in the next months moving forward.

I have personally found the release of project blank astonishing and I believe many people would agree to this because you simply cannot compare what "everybody" can make use of with what only a select few might, or be interested in. This is particularly Leo's venture into the decentralized finance ecosystem with Cub and Polycub, in as much as DeFi is an incredible addition to the space, there is however a huge entry barrier there which is "money" and obviously the "risk factor" in investing, which is really just losing the said money, but then, when looking at project blank, this is something just about anyone can get involved with and the impacts of developments are really not hidden, you can literally see them moving in one after the other and that's really cool.

Building a customizable decentralized governance system

Blockchain is so cool, for a lot of things and Hive blockchain specifically offers a lot, that it isn't given much credit for. I've always imagined a neutral voting system, zero requirement of anything that constitutes money and this is it right here with polls on thread. In fact, simply knowing that moving forward, this will have quite a handful of customization features is quite awesome.

Just like Khal, I look towards a future where all forms of voting will be made digital, and most importantly "governance voting" like presidential elections, governorship and the rest because honestly speaking, the current system just makes things trashy and allows way too many corrupt practices.

Just take a look at what happened in Nigeria's presidential election, if that were blockchain-based voting process, there would have been no way to manipulate the results, even before blockchain, I've always wondered why voting in elections had not been made digital because the benefits are clearly there, less violence, more ease in electoral process, more transparency and less exposure to fraud or manipulation, and now, having it to be blockchain-based just ups the value 100×.

Moving forward with blockchain innovations and developments, we should see the system of governance in the real world take a huge turn, we just need to push a couple of personalities into positions to unlock the doors and let the technology flow through the walls of world's economies.

Historically speaking, the traditional system of business, finance and governance has quite a handful of flaws that blockchain can solve and this isn't simply because data is stored across numerous computers, thus bring in the "distributed factor", yes, that is the base layer factor, the simple security protocol and the foundational value of everything built atop, but what really takes this shit up a notch is it's nature of being widely "customizable". This is why developments haven't ceased since 14 years ago, it is rather a constant struggle to build, develop and innovate, nothing stops that process, in the bulls and in the bears, it continues to grow beyond its previous capacities.

Without having to go deeper into what doesn't apply, polls are live on threads and you can test it out by voting on this one I created (vote here) remember to vote wisely because you cannot erase it :)

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