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Remember the blockchain hype? Well it turns out it's actually incredibly practical for food traceability and provenance. Governments around the world are starti
by LAC-Tech 6y ago
Remember the blockchain hype? Well it turns out it's actually incredibly practical for food traceability and provenance. Governments around the world are starting to demand transparency around this, and in the near future it will be common for consumers to be able to see where their food was grown, processed, shipped to, and how long that took.
So, scan the QR code and pick the produce with the shortest supply chain. If consumers demand it, local food production WILL be a big thing.
- axiosgunnar 6y agoGreat use case! But why would't a centralized database be fine?
- LAC-Tech 6y agoIn an honest world, yes. Blockchain prevents people tampering or revising the data, ie removing unflattering stuff like the refrigeration being turned off on their container, or stuff being sent to a third port, etc. There's a lot of fraud in food.
- M2Ys4U 6y agoI still don't see the value a blockchain provides here. You could just have the database be append-only...
- waihtis 6y agoMakes sense, although if I think about my personal super market experience, you buy one of two variants: local (grown inside the country borders) or foreign. I assume EU regulation already makes it mandatory to inform consumers of the origins of their product. May be different elsewhere of course.