By CCN Markets: Even though Donald Trump kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign last night in Florida in front of a crowd of roughly 20,000, Wall Street isn’t entirely convinced that he’s committed. Jeffrey Gundlach, who is nicknamed the Bond King and whose firm DoubleLine Capital oversees $ 115 billion in AUM, told Fox Business that there’s a chance the president could change his mind. “If the economy goes into recession, and he can’t pull it out by removing the tariffs, there’s very little for him to run on.” Dropping Out Is Not Unheard Of While dropping out of a presidential
Thailand’s Main Opposition Party Holds Primary Election on Blockchain
Thailand’s Democrat Party, the country’s main opposition party has become the first major political party in the world to carry out primary elections entirely on a blockchain. Using a live e-voting system powered by the Zcoin blockchain, the party successfully conducted its primaries which involved more than 120,000 voters between November 1 and November 9.
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Michael Bloomberg Releases Election Ad: “Republicans Have Failed to Lead”
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., has come out in support of the Democratic Party leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elections in a commercial released on Sunday night. On Election Day, we must tell Republicans in Washington that they have failed to lead, failed to find solutions and […]
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Federal Election Committee Asked to Consider Crypto Mining for Political Contributions
OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice. At press time, the request is in a “public comments” stage.
A US Election Probe Implicated Bitcoin – And the Reaction Was Swift
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Sierra Leone and the Blockchain Election That Wasn’t
The big news on March 8, 2018, was that Sierra Leone had just run the first blockchain-based election. The big news in the days and weeks that followed, however, became that the government of Sierra Leone was denying that it happened.
In a press release from Swiss-based blockchain technology company Agora on March 8, 2018, the company led off with this statement: “Sierra Leone’s 2018 presidential elections, which took place on March 7th, represents the first time in history that blockchain technology has been used in a national government election. West District’s results were registered on Agora’s unforgeable blockchain ledger, and the tally made publicly available days before the usual manual count.”
Sierra Leone Becomes First Country With Blockchain-Verified Election Voting
Election history was recently made as Sierra Leone became the first country to use blockchain technology to verify voting results in their presidential election.
Sierra Leone Region Makes History
The application of blockchain technology recorded another milestone recently. While the innovative technology has made tremendous strides in business, it is now putting its stamp upon the political sphere.
The country of Sierra Leone has the distinction of being the first to feature blockchain-verified voting in the country’s presidential election.
In last week’s presidential election in Sierra Leone, blockchain technology was used to verify voting results. However, the new tech was not used throughout the whole country. Rather, it was confined to the country’s most populous region.