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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year 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 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] turmacar 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] FooBarrington 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

and much more… centralized?

it being centralized dosent mean its bad. theres also the fact that many processes are centralized by the nature of how they work.

it’s described as generally more secure as well.

why would that be?

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

What corporation which validates their supply chain for authenticity is not already centralized? It literally makes no sense when the official manufacturer and logistics partners are all known, at that point you may at best want "transparency logs" but not blockchains. They're not even intended to stay authenticated on a second hand market, so there's no need to be able to keep tracking their movements after first sale