I'd like to preface this by saying thank you to whoever the absolute legend here is who recommended Raiblocks on December 1st, thank you for driving my portfolio above 400K for the first time ever
Now, I'd like to give back.
If there's one thing I've heard non-stop for the last month, it's "2018 will be the year of coins with real-world applications", and you can see it in stuff like POWR which has gone up astronomically since it's ICO price of 6 cents.
Now, what better real-world application for blockchain technology than the very foundation of western civilization - voting
Enter, Horizon State. Horizon State (HST) is a blockchain-based platform designed to provide transparency to voting at all levels, from a small local council vote to a large scale federal election. This supports the very fundamental ideas behind cryptocurrency, that decentralization and transparency are of the utmost importance.
You might be thinking, why would any government want to implement this? Well, with current voting methods, elections are estimated to cost taxpayers anywhere from $7 to $25 per vote. With HST, an election on the same scale would cost just 50c per person. That's a massive benefit to both governments and taxpayers.
The team behind Horizon State already have a working voting platform in the form of MiVote (mivote.org.au
Not to mention they're already partnered with the United Nations - the first blockchain-based startup to have a UN partnership (medium.com
What do you think a blockchain-based voting system that's partnered with the United Nations should be worth? Because right now, it's currently sitting at rank 271 with a $40M USD market cap. A coin like this should be AT LEAST in the top 100, if not the top 20.