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The Democratic Party of Thailand, the country's main opposition party, has become the first major political party in the world to hold a primary election on the blockchain. Using an electronic voting system based on the Zcoin blockchain, the party successfully conducted its elections, with more than 120,000 voters participating.
Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has agreed to collaborate with IBM and will use its blockchain platform to optimize its core network and business processes. The company intends to thus optimize the processes of recording data and information received from various sources.
Messenger app developer Kik has decided to exit the Ethereum network as it develops its own cryptocurrency called Kin.
A large Canadian company will control the master nodes of two-layer networks, which are increasingly used in Proof of Stake networks and protocols.
YouTube bloggers have recently increasingly encountered its strict content filtering algorithms. Over the past few years, the platform has become notorious for censoring content that does not fit into its AdSense advertising program.
The launch of the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform will lead to an increase in the price of the Gram cryptocurrency, which Durov has been trying to release for a year now. Hash CIB analysts came to this conclusion.
Software giant Salesforce has been awarded a patent that describes the use of a blockchain platform to combat email spam. The patent explains the technology to prevent spam from reaching users' mailboxes.
The elections held in West Virginia were experimentally conducted on a blockchain platform. State residents overseas in 29 countries voted via their mobile devices. The government's pilot project was the first to use a combination of smartphones, facial recognition and blockchain technology to ensure voting participation for those living and working abroad.
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