[hackerspaces] A call to all hackerspaces

[Jesse Sanford]

I like this. Using bitcoin as an example would make it easy to control
the distribution of tokens within the economy at any time as well.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM, mike iannacone
<mike.iannacone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM, R. Mark Adams, PhD
> <rmadams at epotential.com> wrote:
>> What about leveraging the work that has gone into cryptographic cash? It
>> seems like that is a way to ensure that any givetoken, once issued, can be
>> used only once...
>
> and doing it that way should also be independently auditable, assuming
> that each ballot-option gets its own account where the coins are
> spent, and that coins cannot be forged.  (and both of these seem very
> reasonable to assume.)
>
> The only remaining problem then would be generating and distributing
> the tokens, and ensuring that whoever is generating them is not making
> extra for themselves.  But those problems are probably inherent to all
> other systems as well, and probably solvable by making sure that
> process is very transparent.
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