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I proposed a solution which cannot be gamed. 1 heartbeat 1 vote.
You take something like the Nymi and combine it with something only the individual would know. This would be something they are and something they know which is actually greater security than what the government uses to recognize unique human beings.
The Nymi itself hasn’t been open sourced and that is the only problem with the solution but the conceptual and theoretical basis behind it is sound. You cannot fake a human heart beat, a dead human doesn’t have a heart beat so you cannot use some kinda bot, and if it combines with something only they would know that would mean even if the adversary has a gun pointed at their head they would be able to vote in such a way that the adversary wouldn’t know whether they voted with the real pass code or the fake pass code.
It’s not perfect but any voting system would have to be coercion resistant, pseudo-anonymous/anonymous, and have unique biometric identification.
Robocoin and the Bitcoin ATM’s have to develop this technology. Sooner or later these problems will be solved and it’s just a matter of specialized hardware really (we can’t solve everything by software alone).
You make good points about how current artists could be screwed over by MaidSafe but piracy is going to be on MaidSafe no matter what happens. I do understand that you don’t want to reward or create a market behind it but that is probably going to happen on it’s own no matter what any of us do.
If you can prove each human is unique by something they are (heart beat or hand vein) and something they know (passcode or pin) then you can set it up so that the people who do this get more points than the people who don’t and let the people who are most verified have more weight in the claim.
So if you’re the artist and you’re also verified then it’s no different from if 50 Cent verifies that he’s real to twitter only this would be decentralized and proven to the blockchain itself by technological means.