I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea.
Because you can still separate many fools from their money by adding “blockchain” to whatever you are doing.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea. Fraudulent manifests are usually the result of entering fraudulent data into the system, not modifying it mid-flight. If you want a way to address those situations, you need another layer where a trusted central authority is able to revise events. At which point, why even have a decentralized layer?
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I see here no-one has a clue and expects Italian farmers to behave like american businesses, so I’ll have to explain. The ideology of Italian farmers (and pretty much all euro farmers) is pretty ugly, but also different from your typical murican grift.
In the specific case, Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are obsessed with the idea that they are losing billions to “Italian sounding” products like american Parmesan. Which they believe are sold interchangeably.
The thing that guarantees the absence of fraudolent data is that only “legal” Parmigiano producers from the Modena-Reggio-Parma area would be allowed to enter data in the system, and your american counterfeit Parmesan would be barred. Of course such a system is blind to the fact that they themselves are likely lying about the origin of their milk, but that’s a feature, not a bug.
Unfortunately this is not even peak farmer craziness around here, but that’s a different story (the farmer parties e.g. the dutch one are really ugly).
And this is all beside the obvious fact that Parmigiano-Reggiano is indeed the finest cheese in the world, so far ahead of the Parmesan competition that no person could mistake one for the other in a blind test. And the French and Dutch can bite me.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
The big “problem” for the farmers is that consumers don’t actually give a shit about the DOP system.
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 day ago
Probably if you want to know you should ask the people that decided on this system I doubt this was their first option
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because some manager thought “Blockchain” made the whole thing sound more high tech.