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Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters (www.businessinsider.com)
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Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters::Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are using microchips to verify the authenticity of their products and thwart scammers.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The chips use blockchain technology and trace the wheel of cheese back to where the milk that was used came from.

Cryptobros, Unite! We finally found a way for blockchain tech to be relevant for more than just ransomware! We authenticate cheese!

Someone's gonna make a ton of money on CheeseCoin

[–] June@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Blockchain =/= crypto

Crypto uses blockchain, but blockchain is just a different type of database that generally tracks data through a decentralized network. It has a lot of real uses beyond crypto like identity verification, transcript/records management management, and iot data sharing. It’s nothing that can’t be done in a centralized manner, it’s just a different way of going about it that, in some cases, is much more secure and/or much more easily accessible.

[–] Helluin@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s nothing that can’t be done in a centralized manner,

and thats the main problem with basically all blockchain related solutions, theres pretty much always a centralized alternative thats more efficient

[–] utopianrevolt@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

and much more.... centralized? But let's also just ignore the part where it's described as generally more secure as well.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Most commercial non-crypto blockchains I've seen only have a couple of nodes connected, usually held by a single entity. In these cases it's no less centralised than any alternative write-only DB.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The cheese makers are not concerned about decentralization. Presumably they trust themselves, because they are the only ones trusted to write to the database. If they are the only ones allowed to put something on the chain, it's a central database, regardless of how many computers/places they run it on.

Blockchain is not magically more secure than any other equivalent cryptographic solution.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Blockchain is also good for solving the Ship of Theseus problem. You can encode the entire history of the object into the object.

Blockchain has many cool uses and none of them are currency.