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Can Blockchain Safeguard the Rights of At-Risk LGBT People?

LGBT people have always found themselves at the cutting edge of technological innovation—often out of necessity. They pioneered navigating dial-up chat rooms in the 1990s and looking for hook-ups in the early days of Grindr; now, members of Iran’s LGBT community are using locally created private messaging apps using Telegram’s source code to evade danger. Research from the Internet Society finds that LGBT people are core users of the Internet, with 80% of LGBT people using a social networking si...