{"id":15832,"date":"2018-02-24T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15832"},"modified":"2018-02-24T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:11:36","slug":"liquid-democracy-uses-blockchain-to-fix-politics-and-now-you-can-vote-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/liquid-democracy-uses-blockchain-to-fix-politics-and-now-you-can-vote-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid democracy uses blockchain to fix politics, and now you can vote for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/gettyimages-865841142.jpg?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Yes!<br \/>\nGreat idea. Right now, our political system is a proxy system&#8230;proxy by Dollar. The more dollars, the stronger the proxy vote&#8230;so we all lose.<br \/>\nIn THIS scenario, you can give your proxy to an actual person, and it&#8217;s block chain based, allowing those proxies to be easily aggregated up to become true coalitions of voters&#8230;one vote per each.<br \/>\n#LiquidDemocracy I even like the name.<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Liquid democracy uses blockchain to fix politics, and now you can vote for it&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/24\/liquid-democracy-uses-blockchain\/?ncid=rss&#038;utm_content=buffer8442f&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/24\/liquid-democracy-uses-blockchain\/?ncid=rss&#038;utm_content=buffer8442f&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! Great idea. Right now, our political system is a proxy system&#8230;proxy by Dollar. The more dollars, the stronger the proxy vote&#8230;so we all lose. In THIS scenario, you can give your proxy to an actual person, and it&#8217;s block chain based, allowing those proxies to be easily aggregated up to become true coalitions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12210,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/getting-artists-paid-dotblockchain-announces-new-partners\/","url_meta":{"origin":15832,"position":0},"title":"Getting Artists Paid: dotBlockchain Announces New Partners","date":"February 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A system of royalty payments based on the blockchain and crypto-currencies is long overdue. #dotBlockchain could help ensure fair payments for all, and probably simplify the process to boot.http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kTeK3l","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8884,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/did-michele-bachmann-just-predict-the-death-of-american-democracy-if-hillary-clinton-wins\/","url_meta":{"origin":15832,"position":1},"title":"Did Michele Bachmann just predict the death of American democracy if Hillary Clinton wins?","date":"September 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Does it matter? 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