Moscow authorities publish blockchain voting structure source code

Many proposals voiced by Russian authorities and public figures connected with blockchain are challenged by the lack of tech basis or tech knowledge of those who propose to implement blockchain in a certain field. For example, Elena Mizulina, member of Parliament known to many Russians by her restrictive initiatives, has recently proposed a blockchain-based platform for finding missing children, without telling how to practically realize this project. And Father Frost (Russian version of Santa Claus), an entertainment character residing in the town of Veliky Ustyug, has recently joked that he plans to issue his own cryptocurrency.

Moscow authorities, however, are serious in their intentions to implement blockchain in the “Active Citizen” platform, which is already developed and used by Muscovites to vote on some urban planning issues. The initial announce was followed by the more detailed description, and now the Moscow Mayor’s Office makes a move that is rather atypical for Russian authorities: it published the project source code on GitHub. This structure is almost certainly being analyzed right now by those who have deep understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain internal structures.

In other news from Russia: German Klimenko, who was often called by the media an “the presidential Internet adviser”, is now more like the presidential cryptocurrency adviser. He left his post of the Director of the Internet Development Institute to focus on the Russian Association of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (RACIB).