Innovation
Who is buying into IBM’s blockchain dreams?
Blockchain is one of the best examples of a solution looking for a problem over the past decade. Fundamentally important technology that will impact lives in a decade or two but not with this type of approach.
IBM touts its blockchain in its ads as being able to give companies better visibility and understanding into their supply chains. It’s a relatively simple pitch: Companies and consumers want to know where their produce came from, and the blockchain is a distributed, immutable ledger of transactions that theoretically can provide that sort of information to everyone who would want it. In today’s globalized world, supply chains are mind-numbingly complicated, Ramesh Gopinath, IBM’s VP of blockchain solutions, told Protocol.
https://www.protocol.com/ibm-blockchain-supply-produce-coffee