BSV Blockchain recently had the opportunity to sit down with Eli Afram (Creator of AnonSurvey) to discuss his work, why he chose to become a BSV Ambassador and discuss some of the exciting projects he has planned.
Imagine a transparent ballot box that is visible to you and everyone else at all times, but doesn’t disclose your private information. This ballot box is also immutable and can be used for everything from corporate surveys to national elections.
This is the promise offered by the AnonSurvey app. It helps companies build a questionnaire, survey, voting form, or any data collection form you can think of, to privately and securely collect data from users.
You can read the edited interview below.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and Anonsurvey?
My name is Eli Afram and I have been in Bitcoin and blockchain for a long time. Probably, most notably online since around 2015. The more I have been around it, the more I realised its potential and one of the very early use cases for the technology was the ability to immutably record votes.
It was one of the real winning formulas for blockchain use. However, before the BSV blockchain, it wasn’t possible to create voting software in any cheaper manner. Even if they are only going to charge $0.20 a transaction, when you multiply that across a population it’s going to end up being very expensive.
So my background is in development and I thought I would give it a shot and build this AnonSurvey app.
Can you give us an overview of Anonsurvey’s offering and how it differs from other voting platforms?
Very few blockchains can actually offer secure voting like this and we have actually demonstrated well over a million transactions in a short amount of time. There aren’t many blockchains I know which can process that amount of data so cheaply.
The fact that we can individualise every vote as a transaction – I don’t know any other blockchain which can do that.
What made you become a BSV Ambassador?
I was handpicked about four years ago now by the then-president of the BSV Blockchain. I was always one of the more vocal Australians I guess and so my name was thrown out there.
We all want to do what’s better for the BSV blockchain. BSV blockchain is really the only thing that works with the types of business we want to do. The only way it can work is if the underlying fee is negligible, It needs to be cheaper than a credit card and it needs to be able to scale.
Even if it’s transaction-free at $0.05 or even if it’s $0.02, you have to remember that there are certain countries where they buy things for $0.02. And if they’re going to lose $0.02 in a transaction, that becomes costly to them because the value of money is very different in some countries.
