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Bitcoin Traders Say Options Market Understates Likelihood of Chaotic US Election

Analysts warn against reading too much into the complacency suggested by the volatility metrics.

Florida Approves Voting Reform Bill

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US Postal Service Envisions Blockchain-Backed Mail-In Voting

Whether the USPS intends to experiment with its mail-in voting system was unclear Thursday.

The USPS has not disclosed if it actually intends to roll out its novel voting technique. (CoinDesk archives)

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Election App Voatz Just Got Kicked Out of a Major Bug Bounty Program

Bug bounty platform HackerOne severed ties with Medici Ventures-backed Voatz, the blockchain-based mobile voting app for breach of partnership standards.

Voatz app (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Biden May Not Be Savvy About Big Tech, but He Understands Cybersecurity

Nobody is chanting “Hey, Ho, Uncle Joe for Crypto!” at a Biden election rally. But the venerable ex-vice president does have things to say about big tech, chiefly in the realm of cybersecurity.

Image by Ali Powell

Policy

How Elizabeth Warren's Beef With Facebook Could Benefit Bitcoin

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is crusading against big banks as one of her core platforms for the 2020 presidential election, but it’s her social media policies that may have the most direct impact on bitcoiners.

Warren in South Carolina, via Ali Powell

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Yang 2020 and the Search for the Next Crypto Candidate

What’s next for the Yang Gang, and who – if anyone – will inherit their leader’s mantle?

Andrew Yang (left) 
at Consensus 2019

Policy

Why Aren't the Candidates Talking About Digital Currency?

Given the threat to US interests posed by a digital yuan and similar projects, you might think candidates would have positions on the future of money. Not so much.

Image via Shutterstock

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

A newly declassified DHS cyber audit complicates Thursday’s reports of major security vulnerabilities in the Voatz mobile voting app.

DHS's cybersecurity branch audited Voatz's internal networks and servers, finding little to be concerned about, in stark contrast with an MIT report published Thursday. (Image via Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock)

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Meet the Crypto Angel Investor Running for Congress in Nevada

Lisa Song Sutton, an entrepreneur and bitcoin ATM investor, is running for Congress in the Fourth Congressional District of Nevada. If elected, she'd like to sit down with President Trump and talk about bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

LIGHT TOUCH: "As a business owner, I advocate a free-market approach," says Lisa Song Sutton. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)

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Congressional Challenger to House Speaker Pelosi Is Fundraising in Crypto

Democratic blockchain and crypto enthusiast Agatha Bacelar is challenging House Speaker Pelosi on a tech-focused platform.

Agatha Bacelar

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