guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips
Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters
this honestly doesn't sound too bad (as long as the chips aren't toxic)
using blockchains to track the movement of goods, like from ports or for cheese, is probably their only non-BS use case other than volatile currencies
the reason a Blockchain would be preferable to a traditional database is bc its effectively impossible to change the records on it
It's ironic that the design of blockchain is to be impossible to edit as security against fraud. Because crypto is famous for all the fraud, And the block-chain's nature makes the fraud permanent and fixed.
At least one of the currencies had to fork because fraudulent transactions couldn't be undone.
impossible to edit as security against fraud.
Well security against monetary fraud, like faking coins or double spending. Especially double spending, at the time when bitcoin started pretty much all the other mathematical problems were figured out except that one.
And the block-chain's nature makes the fraud permanent and fixed.
Not true
They're silicone so I don't know. They're "considered safe for food use" right now.
using blockchains to track the movement of goods, like from ports or for cheese, is probably their only non-BS use case other than volatile currencies
We already do this with barcodes and QR codes, which you can just make with a printer.
No? Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)
But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn't even require much processing power since there's no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.
I hate cryptobros but logistics is a good use for the tech. Tech is tech, not all use cases are bad.
QR codes are just symbols in a camera readible way and barcodes numbers in a camara readible way.
A storage medium for 0´s & 1´s like a USB stick or a disc but way less storage.
They dont add any security, heck when you would have looked at barcodes you would likely have realised that the same product uses the same code (and not each one being unique)
Their use cases are cashiers dont have to manually find/type each product into their terminal but have a scanable ID & QR Codes are mostly to open websites as users without having to type a potentionally long URL.
In booth cases they remove the human error.
The article is overly dramatic. It's like someone putting an RFID Tag ON something.
You're not going to eat this microchip unless you are a fan of eating Parmesan rind, the part where they add a label made from casein.
Also: 1 1/2 year old news
it’s not news it’s shit post sry
You're not going to eat this microchip unless you are a fan of eating Parmesan rind, the part where they add a label made from casein.
I mean... I don't eat it, but I do freeze it to add to bolognese sauces when they're cooking for a long time.
I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea. Fraudulent manifests are usually the result of entering fraudulent data into the system, not modifying it mid-flight. If you want a way to address those situations, you need another layer where a trusted central authority is able to revise events. At which point, why even have a decentralized layer?
Because some manager thought "Blockchain" made the whole thing sound more high tech.
I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea.
Because you can still separate many fools from their money by adding "blockchain" to whatever you are doing.
I see here no-one has a clue and expects Italian farmers to behave like american businesses, so I'll have to explain. The ideology of Italian farmers (and pretty much all euro farmers) is pretty ugly, but also different from your typical murican grift.
In the specific case, Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are obsessed with the idea that they are losing billions to "Italian sounding" products like american Parmesan. Which they believe are sold interchangeably.
The thing that guarantees the absence of fraudolent data is that only "legal" Parmigiano producers from the Modena-Reggio-Parma area would be allowed to enter data in the system, and your american counterfeit Parmesan would be barred. Of course such a system is blind to the fact that they themselves are likely lying about the origin of their milk, but that's a feature, not a bug.
Unfortunately this is not even peak farmer craziness around here, but that's a different story (the farmer parties e.g. the dutch one are really ugly).
And this is all beside the obvious fact that Parmigiano-Reggiano is indeed the finest cheese in the world, so far ahead of the Parmesan competition that no person could mistake one for the other in a blind test. And the French and Dutch can bite me.
Probably if you want to know you should ask the people that decided on this system I doubt this was their first option
So I had the most blasphemous dream about Easter and cheese.
This church, you know the one, had an Easter party. They had the tomb, and when the wheel was gone Jesus would come out and greet Mary. The wheel was a giant wheel of cheese and everyone got to take like five pounds to fondue right there and five pounds to eat later (my dreams end with everyone happy most of the time) but like there was still a lot of cheese this was the first time we did this and the wheel we got could feed like, maybe me and one other dude who likes cheese. Did I mention I like cheese I mean I'm dreaming about a big fucking wheel of it. We're talking six month supply, seven feet across five feet high fuck I was trying to go to sleep and then I started telling a story about cheese now I'm hungry dammit. Anyways, this big fucking wheel of cheese, we bought too much, if such a thing as the concept of too much cheese can exist and I argue it cannot. But anyways that's why Jesus isn't back, it's because we couldn't finish the cheese at the Easter party.
I’ll have whatever it is that you are on.
Dang ol' Wallace over here. 😂
I read this thread title in Alex Jones.
"Micro chips" cost almost nothing in bulk. They are like a barcode sticker, but sub-surface. Even the scanners are affordable. Plugs right into USB and emulates a keyboard that sends key strokes for the chip ID. Full-size Parmigiano wheel can cost a pretty penny.
Edible microchips
Look at me, I'm the cheese now.
So stop eating cheese. It's funny(not really) how something so moronic triggers you but the living hell you are causing these animals is not even a spot on your horizon
Authenticated cheese is the answer to the question, "what is the blockchain really good for, other than laundering money?"
someone who isnt me uses it to buy illegal crime drugs like marijuanas
See? Criminiminiminal activity!
Two? Two!? Did you inject both!!? That's simply too much cool. Things could tip over.
But I only had two marijuanas, I was told that was ok by the cool guy on the corner.