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ForkLog 6 16.07.2022

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the Winklevoss brothers backed Kirsten Gillibrand’s campaign

In the second quarter of 2022, U.S. Senator from New York Kirsten Gillibrand received more than $150,000 in donations to her campaign from figures in the crypto industry.

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ForkLog 10 15.07.2022

Top executives at a16z and Kraken backed Cynthia Lummis’s Senate campaign

In the second quarter of 2022, executives of cryptocurrency companies and venture funds were active donors to the campaign of the U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Cynthia Lummis.

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ForkLog 7 25.05.2022

FTX chief to spend more than $100 million on US presidential elections

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he plans to devote substantial funds to campaigns related to the 2024 U.S. presidential elections in the What’s Your Problem? podcast with Jacob Goldstein.

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ForkLog 8 09.05.2022

Candidates in Russia must report cryptocurrency holdings abroad

Russian President Vladimir Putin has added data on cryptocurrencies and tokens to the list of information to be checked about candidates' overseas assets. The decree was published on the official portal of legal information.

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ForkLog 7 21.01.2022

Access to Moscow’s blockchain-voting data will be open to all

The service for monitoring Moscow's blockchain voting will be improved; it will be accessible and understandable to anyone wishing to follow the course of the elections.

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ForkLog 10 22.09.2021

Central Election Commission considers moving to a common blockchain platform amid Moscow voting problems

Alexey Venediktov, head of the Public Headquarters for Election Observation in Moscow, proposed that members of the technical working group recheck the results of the remote electronic voting (DEG), conducted via the city’s blockchain system.

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ForkLog 10 25.06.2021

New York mayoral candidate pledges to turn city into a Bitcoin industry hub

One of the candidates for the New York City mayor's seat, Eric Adams, said he planned to make the city more friendly to technology and cryptocurrencies.

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ForkLog 8 13.05.2021

Russia’s test blockchain voting criticised for lack of transparency

About 200,000 Russians were unable to participate in testing of the nationwide blockchain-based online voting due to the CEC's refusal.

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ForkLog 7 04.03.2021

AP auctions NFT commemorating the 2020 U.S. presidential election on the blockchain

The Associated Press (AP) has put up for auction a non-fungible token (NFT) commemorating the 2020 U.S. presidential elections recorded on the blockchain.

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ForkLog 50 25.02.2021

Beeple’s Trump NFT Crossroad resold for $6.6 million

The digital artwork "Crossroad" by Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, was resold for a record $6.6 million. The non-fungible token (NFT) depicts the former U.S. president Donald Trump, who lost the election.

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ForkLog 13 05.02.2021

Bitcoin advocate Chamath Palihapitiya abandons bid to become California governor

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of the venture-capital firm Social Capital, has abandoned the idea of running for governor of California. He spoke about it on the All-In Podcast.

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ForkLog 6 04.12.2020

Why blockchain voting won’t solve the trust problem in election results

Office work and public services are moving to digital formats, but governments are not rushing to implement online voting. Reasons include technical problems, a never-ending string of failed experiments, and public distrust. The obvious way out of this impasse is blockchain technology — after all, it was designed to solve the problem of trust. ForkLog investigates whether this is feasible in practice.

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