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Anyone who's into blockchains take note. As fun as tracking complex financial logic may be, accurately tracking physical supply chains is probably the quickest
by jbpetersen 10y ago
Anyone who's into blockchains take note. As fun as tracking complex financial logic may be, accurately tracking physical supply chains is probably the quickest route to notably improving the lives of people in general.
- infodroid 10y agoIn the case of tracking counterfeit Apple products, how would a blockchain solution be better than a simple database of serial numbers maintained by Apple for example?
- jbpetersen 10y agoThe small addition of hashing updates to the database with a hash of the last snapshot provides a sense of history that can't be tampered with. Otherwise you risk headlines like "Counterfeit devices flood market after Apple registry hacked, AAPL down XX%".
- majewsky 10y agoA SQLite file doesn't get you VC money.