Olive Oil -- tracked by IBM Blockchain Technology!
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I bought some olive oil from Costco.
Lol and behold, there is a card accompanying the product that says it is tracked using IBM Blockchain Technology and that I can trace the provenance of the olive oil by scanning the QR code on the bottle.
Sure enough, I found the QR code and scanned it, which brought me to a website that then asks for a "lot number."
I found the "lot number" printed on the bottle and typed it in, and voila, this is what I get:
https://terradelyssa.fr/clients/00505/5AL122542697-2024
That webpage tells me a lot of things, like when and where the olives were harvested, when they were first pressed, where/when it was stored, laboratory tested, filtered, bottled, analyzed, etc.
I sure don't the capability to independently verify any of the information, or that a blockchain is actually used. Not sure how much I should care, or if I think this is a good use of blockchain technology.
Thoughts?
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I don’t see what blockchain adds. Sure it’s a tamper proof ledger, but are we really worried about falsified olive records? And there’s still data entry happening - so the system can theoretically be falsified anyways.
There’s no good use case I’ve seen outside of digital currency so far.
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@xenon said in Olive Oil -- tracked by IBM Blockchain Technology!:
I don’t see what blockchain adds. Sure it’s a tamper proof ledger, but are we really worried about falsified olive records? And there’s still data entry happening - so the system can theoretically be falsified anyways.
There’s no good use case I’ve seen outside of digital currency so far.
Maybe for medicines, etc. As you say however, it could be falsified, but I guess it would be more difficult?
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@xenon said in Olive Oil -- tracked by IBM Blockchain Technology!:
I don’t see what blockchain adds. Sure it’s a tamper proof ledger, but are we really worried about falsified olive records? And there’s still data entry happening - so the system can theoretically be falsified anyways.
There’s no good use case I’ve seen outside of digital currency so far.
Actually, yes. Organized crime has been in the olive oil game for years, adulterating and mislabeling oils for profit. Sometimes they can contain harmful substances. Terralyssa is the brand I use regularly. I'm glad this exists.
