ChiggaOG t1_iydobwz wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:05 PM

Reply to comment by letsgetrandy in IBM and Maersk to shut down TradeLens supply chain platform - Project with shipping giant was once floated as ideal blockchain use case – but industry didn't buy in by Loki-L

On the commercial scale. Blockchain for tracking stuff in real-time competes with other solutions that already exist for manufacturing with the use of a QR code in a database pegged to a month and year. It's just an expense added to a solution that was already working.

beef-o-lipso t1_iyeucke wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:34 PM

Exactly. And the cost to change is very high so there better be big upside for all the stakeholders to switch technologies. "Because it's better" isn't good enough.