A fourteen-year-old developer named Alex Pasfield who has been coding since the age of nine, has created a new tool called Bitcoin Voice a platform that enables uncensorable voting for subjects within the bitcoin cash community.
Bitcoin Voice is an application that shows public messages tethered to blockchain transactions that are sourced from live data. The website states that it “may be utilized as a verifiable voting record of blockchain users weighted by their transaction amounts.”
Pasfield holds his father responsible for igniting within him an interest in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Pasfield said,
“My dad had been teaching me programming at the time and then gave me insight into uncensorable, distributed, peer-to-peer, permissionless, global money systems — And given he and I have somewhat of a libertarian streak, this resonated with me immediately,”
Since then, Pasfield has been commissioned by groups in Sweden and Australia to design and build crypto-related and blockchain projects.
Bitcoin Voice developer wrote his first program after his father briefly explained him about programming languages. By that time he learnt how to separate the back-end, front-end and database to build distributed systems, which gave me great experience with Javascript, HTML, web servers, Python, RDBMSs and Unix system administration.
And since then he has never looked back. On his decision to exclusively build a voting application, Bitcoin voice for the cryptocurrency community, Pasfield said, “I was working with some of my smart friends who were building solutions in this space, and we saw the debacle that unfolded with the censorship on the /r/bitcoin subreddit that prevented the community from freely discussing how to evolve the Bitcoin protocol,”
“There is also the inherent problem that even without the type of censorship that occurred with /r/bitcoin, these community discussion platforms such as Reddit are vulnerable to Sybil attacks and actors who don’t necessarily have skin in the game. i.e. non coin-holders. So, we realised the only way to achieve a global, uncensorable, verifiable voting system that reflected stake was to put it on the blockchain.”
The best bit about Bitcoin Voice is that there is only one client where you can vote using public label values, which is the Bitcoin Unlimited Cash reference client. Pasfield wants wallet developers incorporating the public label voting system into their wallets which is really easy and only requires a simple change, according to him.
“The website will soon host technical instructions on how to do this, but meanwhile it would be awesome for wallet developers to contact me for technical developer instructions and look at the reference client.”
Now the Bitcoin Voice developer plans to fix certain problems pertaining to the scalability, something which is often an issue across most of the crypto platforms. He wants to see how scaling can best be solved for the different coins out there.
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