• bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Once again, we are talking about blockchain, not Bitcoin

    You realize blockchain is used by many large companies for practical purposes, not just by hobbyists swapping magical internet money, right?

    Many large retailers (e.g. Walmart) and pharmaceutical companies use managed blockchain solutions (e.g. IBMs supply chain software) to track end to end process flow and see the pedigree of products at their end destination, because it means the end user doesn’t need to request unfettered access to 6 different companies ERP systems to know when the hell their purchase order is getting delivered

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      12 hours ago

      They really, truly don’t. There are a few “pilot projects” so that the companies can tell investors that they have a “blockchain strategy” but the world runs off of normal databases.