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Overstock Touts Voatz Blockchain Voting App as Solution to US Election Fracas

Days before a U.S. presidential election marred by court fights over vote counting and partisan allegations of rampant mail-in ballot fraud, Overstock.com is once again touting what it calls a solution: blockchain voting.“If [voting] doesn’t work as well as it should, next week think about how Voatz could have solved

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Voatz Calls for Restrictions on Independent Cybersecurity Research in Supreme Court Brief

Blockchain voting startup Voatz argued that bug bounty programs concerning cybersecurity should be operated under strict supervision in a “friend of the court” brief before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Voatz weighed in Thursday on Van Buren v. United States, a Supreme Court case examining whether it is

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After MIT Find Vulnerabilities, Medici Ventures Defends Blockchain Voting App Voatz

Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock and president of Medici Ventures, has issued a statement supporting blockchain in voting in response to the technology’s vulnerabilities claims published on Feb. 13.Emerging technologies got in the crosshairs of regulators when a mobile software application that had been devised to help calculate the

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MIT Wasn’t Only One Auditing Voatz – Homeland Security Did Too, With Fewer Concerns

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found a number of security vulnerabilities in Voatz’s tech infrastructure during a cybersecurity audit of the mobile voting app vendor’s Boston headquarters, according to a newly declassified report obtained by CoinDesk. However, the DHS report, conducted by a Hunt and Incident Response Team with the

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