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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-ironore-blockchain-idUSKBN240048 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-ironore-blockchain-id...
by Gatsky 6y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-ironore-blockchain-idUSKBN240048 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-ironore-blockchain-id...
- martin_a 6y ago> to digitise a sector that still uses millions of paper documents So, they now use blockchain where sending documents as a PDF would have been sufficient... I'm so proud! edit: Read the article! That's truely their main selling point. Formerly it was done on/with paper, now it's "on the blockchain". This is another great example why we don't need blockchain.
- Gatsky 6y agoWhat’s the point of a PDF when a fax would be sufficient?
- robjan 6y agoThe problem is that the purpose of the Blockchain is to achieve distributed trustless consensus. Any time the Blockchain interacts with the physical world you need to introduce a centralised trusted entity (the oracle problem)