Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain

Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by paxys on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:10AM (#16929509)

There's no such thing as "the" Blockchain. Walmart is using "a" Blockchain, in which I'm guessing they themselves own and operate all nodes.

> Yiannas said blockchain was able to cut the time it took to track produce to two seconds from six days.

With no more detail I can't even start to think how a Blockchain DB makes any difference?

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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by pests on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:26AM (#16929614)

It didn't say it was using "the Blockchain." The article clearly states its using the "International Business Machines Corp.’s blockchain platform."

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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by paxys on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:29AM (#16929633)

> It didn't say it was using "the Blockchain."

Did you not read the title of the post, or the title of the linked article, or the article itself?

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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by pests on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:30AM (#16929643)

Ah yes, because all important details of a story are in the title.

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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by tomcatfish on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:43AM (#16929725)

No, but it is the very first thing you read

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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by pests on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:52AM (#16929801)

I would highly hope that someone would read the article, and not just the title, before complaining about how unspecific a word in the title was.

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Re:Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain by paxys on Thursday April 26, 2018 @03:44AM (#16929730)

The article also says the blockchain.

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