1. Proof of existence: <a href="http://www.proofofexistence.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.proofofexistence.com/</a> show that you are the original author of a creative work before putting it out there in the world where anyone can copy the bits.<p>2. Eternal love messages: <a href="http://aterna.org/love/" rel="nofollow">http://aterna.org/love/</a> Embeds messages on the florincoin blockchain and the message is stored as long as there is at least one peer on the network (Bitcoin doesn't support such long messages).<p>2b. Encoded messages in the Bitcoin blockchain: <a href="http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...</a> - these are hex encoded messages. Florincoin above allows to store data itself in the blockchain.<p>3. Autonomous Corporations: <a href="http://btcgeek.com/dawn-of-autonomous-corporations/" rel="nofollow">http://btcgeek.com/dawn-of-autonomous-corporations/</a> Futuristic stuff that's possible with the blockchain technology - creating 'corporations' that no one owns or profits from but are fully self-sufficient.
Has anyone looked into voting systems through bitcoin?<p>Here's how I would design it. Please correct any flaws:<p>Make a wallet with a tiny amount of bitcoin for each voter and distribute the wallets.<p>Each candidate gets an empty wallet. Publish the public address of those wallets.<p>Voters send their coins to their chosen candidate's wallet. The candidate with the most bitcoins (only counting txns from the distributed voting wallets) wins.<p>Voters could potentially use a mixing service or coinjoin to preserve anonymity?<p>Keep in mind, I'm talking about pennies or less worth of bitcoin so there's no financial element to any of this. Just taking advantage of the bitcoin platform.<p>As a bonus, there's a permanent, unalterable public record of the votes.