“Piano is not a piano if it says ‘wardrobe’ on it. Only a wardrobe with the ‘piano’ label is a piano!”
— Žika Srećković

Whenever you hear someone repeats ‘smart’ mantra of ‘Bitcoin as a scam, but blockchain is the real thing that has a future!’, know that it is either an ignoramus who trusts the media too much, or a scammer who tries to manipulate those who trust the media too much. The truth is this: Bitcoin is based on four technologies, including blockchain technology. The other three are network technology, cryptographic technology, and decentralized consensus-building technology, also known as ‘Proof of Work’. Bitcoin is the first and the only real implementation of blockchain technology. The rest are mostly scams to which a ‘blockchain’ label is affixed. One such can be seen in the system of encrypting votes in the elections for the Russian parliament:

Why isn’t it blockchain? Because a true blockchain exists only if it meets the following five conditions: It must be open, public, neutral, borderless and censorship resistant. These are the five pillars (from the title picture) on which the true blockchain rests and which should be remembered. But as usual, the problem is that the Centralized Hierarchical Political Matrix (CHPM) will easily stick a label over any scam, and declare it a blockchain. Remember how easily the corporate media labeled "vaccines" on the poisonous garbage of Big Pharma? If you believe them, you are in a big, big trouble. Now the label ‘blockchain’ is used as a magic word that guarantees fair voting electronically…

The first thing that catches your eye is that it says ‘blockchain based distributed network’. Let’s quickly check if it really is blockchain. If it is distributed, it means that it is located on an unknown number of servers. Do we know who owns the servers? Certainly the State is the owner, because you can’t get involved and open your own node, which means that there is no decentralization, and that the public is excluded.

Second question: Is it open? I dare you to find the source code of the electronic voting system.

It is certainly not unlimited and neutral, because it was designed and conceived to be available (theoretically) only to the population of Russian citizens – even if they were way up in an international space station!

Resistant to censorship (or other manipulations)? We'll see about that. This is obviously not blockchain. This is a centralized cryptographic voting system that has nothing to do with the blockchain, and which will be subject to hacker attacks by foreign intelligence services and manipulations, if not of this Russian government, then of some future regime that will want to stay in power.

It is now clear why Mikhail Mishustin, the technocrat who digitized the tax system of the largest country in the world, was appointed Prime Minister of Russia. It was expected that he would organize a similar and impenetrable system for the needs of political elections. Unfortunately, sooner or later, it will be shown that it is not possible to do it in this way.

The Russian people, like all other peoples on the planet, are being ruthlessly manipulated. Just like in the introductory joke by Žika Srećković (a journalist who wrote satirical texts on media stupidities in the ’70’s and ’80’s of the last Century), blockchain is not what you stick the label on. True blockchain must meet certain conditions and criteria. If there aren’t any, it’s a scam.

And this is a scam, regardless of the election results…