Elections

The U.S. Treasury Department is adding new digital currency addresses it claims are tied to election interference efforts by a Russian entity.
US Government Sanctions Crypto Addresses Linked to Russian Election Fraud Scheme
The move is part of a sweeping set of actions taken by the U.S. government against alleged Russian election interference.
The U.S. Treasury Department is adding new digital currency addresses it claims are tied to election interference efforts by a Russian entity.

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New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes
An encryption inventor and the head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.
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How Investors Are Trading the Election
As the U.S. presidential election gets closer, market “predictions” are showing up in stocks from energy to private prisons.
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Florida Approves Voting Reform Bill
Bitcoin Traders Say Options Market Understates Likelihood of Chaotic US Election
Analysts warn against reading too much into the complacency suggested by the volatility metrics.
Florida Approves Voting Reform Bill

The USPS has not disclosed if it actually intends to roll out its novel voting technique. (CoinDesk archives)
US Postal Service Envisions Blockchain-Backed Mail-In Voting
Whether the USPS intends to experiment with its mail-in voting system was unclear Thursday.
The USPS has not disclosed if it actually intends to roll out its novel voting technique. (CoinDesk archives)

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Election App Voatz Just Got Kicked Out of a Major Bug Bounty Program
Bug bounty platform HackerOne severed ties with Medici Ventures-backed Voatz, the blockchain-based mobile voting app for breach of partnership standards.
Voatz app (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Biden May Not Be Savvy About Big Tech, but He Understands Cybersecurity
Nobody is chanting “Hey, Ho, Uncle Joe for Crypto!” at a Biden election rally. But the venerable ex-vice president does have things to say about big tech, chiefly in the realm...
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How Elizabeth Warren's Beef With Facebook Could Benefit Bitcoin
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is crusading against big banks as one of her core platforms for the 2020 presidential election, but it’s her social media policies that may have the most...
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Why Aren't the Candidates Talking About Digital Currency?
Given the threat to US interests posed by a digital yuan and similar projects, you might think candidates would have positions on the future of money. Not so much.
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at Consensus 2019
Yang 2020 and the Search for the Next Crypto Candidate
What’s next for the Yang Gang, and who – if anyone – will inherit their leader’s mantle?
Andrew Yang (left) 
at Consensus 2019