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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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[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, the ship of Theseus isn't a problem, nor is there a solution, but I get the joke anyway :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There was a joke in there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a joke in there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought there must be, otherwise it would be a deep misunderstanding of what the ship of Theseus is