Over 1.8 billion people who are eligible to vote, don’t. In the past five years alone 52 countries have experienced some sort of election interference. The Hedera Free and Fair Voting Initiative wants to make every election in the world fair and free, without voter manipulation and suppression.

A couple of weeks ago, a number of members of the Hedera hashgraph community came together in LA for the Crypto Invest Summit. Matt Sorum, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer formerly of Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, The Cult, and Kings of Chaos, was on hand to talk on-stage about his latest venture, Artbit.

Currently, Hedera is conducting an institutional fundraising round, limited to whitelisted institutional investors, to launch the platform and accelerate development of distributed apps. A subsequent crowdsale to accredited investors may follow.

Collaboration follows on the heels of successful private ledger use of Swirlds hashgraph within the United States

Since announcing our plan to launch Hedera Hashgraph a little under a month ago, we’ve seen tremendous interest from the developer community. We have received questions about our patents, why they are in place, and how they are beneficial to developers and users. This post aims to address those questions for the developer and user communities.

In the weeks since our launch, we are seeing an increasing number of sophisticated scammers trying to take advantage of our community. These scams range from emails to Twitter accounts to fake websites, and the most sophisticated of them are targeted phishing scams, using social engineering.

It’s a wonderful bit of irony that the Fiddler on the Roof character singing the above is named ‘Hodel’.