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by notahacker 3385 days ago
Surely the trust issues in global supply chains - involving making and shipping physical products often subject to regulatory oversight in multiple jurisdictions - are much bigger than "the database isn't mutable"? Ultimately, a blockchain database can lie just as much about the quantity and quality of what's being shipped as a transponder which all interested parties can track on their own non-blockchain auditing systems.