I clearly don’t understand blockchain. I may never understand blockchain. How does someone adding a cryptographic number to a head of lettuce (or a group of lettuce in a pallet) help this situation? Does the number get added onto or changed as it passes through other hands? I mean, I totally understand how an TCP/IP stack works and how extra bits are added to a portion of the addressing to translate into “this packet was sent from here, went through here, and also here, and is heading there… when there replies back, please send back through here, and also here, so it gets to here.” Is that how the blockchain works? Because if not, this makes no sense to me. If the suppliers in between the farmer and the ultimate destination aren’t adding to that blockchain, this is just a database issue that doesn’t resolve anything and sounds like technobabble to try and improve consumer confidence, not resolve a difficult problem. You still need everyone in the chain of delivery to record “this pallet with this block chain came through here.” That’s just database entries, and you can do that with any number, you don’t need blockchain.
Again… I clearly don’t understand blockchain, so maybe I’m missing some magic that someone can explain to me.
