[Barrin92]

also, the per capita income is no higher than in Lithuania which one wouldn't guess given the barrage of articles about Estonia's 'innovative' government.

Relatively sound advice is that whenever someone advertises to run the government 'like a business', the outcome is going to be 90% disappointing and hot air.

This is essentially just a huge PR campaign, the electronic voting is a security disaster, and if you see a government official talk about putting things 'on the blockchain' just run.

[dullgiulio]

The government has been running "on the blockchain" for a while, with projects like the X-road, which are also used by other countries (the other two Balitc countries and Finland).

It is a blockchain in the only way that makes sense: a cryptographically secure ledger run by a central authority (government).

[Barrin92]

well, that's weird because according to the institute that runs the entire thing (https://www.niis.org/blog/2018/4/26/there-is-no-blockchain-t...), there is no blockchain technology involved, it merely uses some hashes to link data together, as do plenty of age-old protocols.

This is a good example of why these PR campaigns are silly.