Доверяй, но проверяй "Doveryai, no proveryai" is a Russian proverb meaning "Trust but Verify" was made popular by President Ronald Reagan. He made it's use popular when referring to nuclear disarmament.
Most people would come to a general agreement that leaders in government and society can be trusted to lead. However given complete freedom to "run the show", all human are easily corrupted by power and money. How then can a country keep it's leaders accountable for their actions.
Every country has its own form of governance but they tend to be fairly outdated. Most of the time leaders are really only made accountable once every 4 to 5 years where they risk not being reelected. Meanwhile, the technology has enabled decisions to be made in minutes on a global scale and even the smallest of decisions can have consequences that last for decades. This discrepancy in time from which the decision is made and is available to the public is too long and surely unacceptable in 2018.
As such, we have to start finding new ways and incorporate new technologies to monitor large entities like governments on a minute by minute basis. Such information should also be both easily accessible by the public and immutable; uneditable / unchangeable by anyone once included. The most obvious form to store such public information is the blockchain!
When properly implemented, all tax money above a certain amount (say USD 1 mil worth) should be required by law to be immediately recorded on the blockchain prior to expenditure. Every citizen would have a crypto wallet which would allow them to view these decisions and choose to vote for or against these decisions; all of which is recorded on the blockchain.
This would allow the citizen to monitor every decision made by the government and vote for a minute by minute frequency for every major decision made by the government. Not wait for another 5 years for the opportunity to make a single vote.
Watch out governments, the people are watching you.
the key of the blockchain is too long for old ppl ,how to let them to remember?
This is a very good question. This is now the initial phase of blockchain development. And much like the early internet, people were forced to remember cryptic codes (IP addresses). Only much later one did they have website addresses which were much easier to remember.
Eventually we might have many private keys which have a more human readable form similar to travelherecoin.now as an address. It will take time but eventually this is where things will ove to.
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If we are going to use a system like thisfor individuals, it might be more interesting to a voting mechanism to vote for government leaders. Thoughts @nairdaddy ?
Chinese translation:
是一句俄罗斯谚语，意思是“信任但要核查”，这句谚语深受罗纳德·里根总统的喜爱。他在提到核裁军的时候，旁敲侧击引用过，也使这句话成为一句不朽的格言。
大多数人都会达成共识，认为政府和社会的领导人是可以信赖的。然而，如果给绝对的自由让其“自导自演”，所有的人都很容易被糖衣炮弹所腐蚀。那么，一个国家如何才能让自己的领导人对自己的行为负责呢？
每个国家都有自己的治理形式，但都相当过时。大多数情况下，领导人每4至5年才被问责一次，来决定是否再当选。与此同时，这个使人们能够在全球范围内, 几分钟内便做出决定的技术，即使是最小的决定也会产生持续数十年的后果。在2018年，作出决定和公之于众此决定的时间差距太长，而且肯定是不可接受的。
因此，我们必须开始寻找新的方法，并结合新技术，以分钟为基础监测政府等大型实体。这类信息也应容易被公之于众，不可变；包括任何人不可编辑/不可更改。最明显的存储这种公共信息的形式就是区域链！
如果正确实施，所有超过一定金额的税金(例如100万美元)都应依法要求在支出前立即记录在区块链上。每个公民都有一个密码钱包，让他们可以查看这些决定，并可选择投票赞成或反对；所有这些都记录在区块链上。
这将使公民能够监督政府作出的每一项决定，并对政府作出的每一项重大决定进行时刻投票。不要再等5年才有机会投出一票。
政府要保持警觉，人民都在关注你。