The bitcoin boom spawned new billionaires and videos of beach parties and Lamborghinis. The crypto crash brought devastation for small investors and bankruptcy for many companies.
Blockchain technology underpins crypto and has been hailed as a world-changing innovation, but does it have any use beyond creating speculative financial instruments?
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A "blockchain-based mobile voting app", he tweeted, would mean "we won't have to wait for results, or have any questions on its validity".
So far, experiments have been very small scale.
"From the American perspective, every single district runs its own voting programme," said.
"Centralising the voting system in one digital place would be pretty risky -– then all you have to do is corrupt the blockchain and you could corrupt democracy."
Blockchain at heart is a ledger, a way of storing transactions that is -- according to fans -- secure, transparent and permanent.
Diehl said it was "absurd" that the blockchain was...
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