Verifying the safety of infant formula using the blockchain
I keep on hearing about how blockchain is the future of everything but am yet to hear even a single use case which could not have been implemented in a traditional DB. I suppose blockchain has some advantages in its zero-trust distributed nature but that&#x27;s just implementation.<p>In this case, the previous problem wasn&#x27;t technological, it was a bad actor subverting the system - and they would be able to subvert this system in the exact same way. What, is the blockchain going to reach up out of the ether and hold the guy back from pouring melamine into the mixing vat, then saying he didn&#x27;t?<p>I don&#x27;t know how journalists fall for this nonsense. You don&#x27;t even need to be technically literate to see the problem. I didn&#x27;t even have to read the article to know what the fatal flaw was going to be. And this is the BBC! It&#x27;s infuriating.