IBM's systems for Walmart and Maersk are completely centralised, but the back-end database is Hyperledger, so they're trumpeted as "GOOD NEWS FOR BLOCKCHAIN" - the correct perspective is "with sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine", and boy are IBM strapping Porky to a rocket.
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Replying to @davidgerard
Is this Walmart's food traceability blockchain, or a different project altogether?
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww
yeah the one recently publicised, where you could take all the press articles, change the word "blockchain" to "database" and they'd be the same article
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww @davidgerard
I'm afraid I don't agree. It's indeed a permissioned blockchain but if a simple database would have done the deal, we would have done it ages ago. The transparency and especially immutability are crucial from my point of view.
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Replying to @michelvdp @SarahTaber_bww
this is technically nonsense. you work for IBM, you know how they do things: with sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. literally the only purpose for using "blockchain" here is to market blockchains. it's a quintessential rigged demo.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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A simple database would have done the deal. Hyperledger is just a tool that the @linuxfoundation is using to scam enterprises.
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