▲ 121 ▼ U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept' (www.coindesk.com) submitted 1 year ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways. archive: https://archive.ph/RDgRJ
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago (2 children) What’s the use case here? Is there one? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago Bribing people with technologies that do nothing. Since cost and worth aren't really quantifiable with some of these technologies, all of these actions might as well be seen as just shallow bribes and favors to those in power. permalink fedilink source parent [–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago Channeling money to the crypto bros who gave dark money to Trump. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago Bribing people with technologies that do nothing. Since cost and worth aren't really quantifiable with some of these technologies, all of these actions might as well be seen as just shallow bribes and favors to those in power. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago Channeling money to the crypto bros who gave dark money to Trump. permalink fedilink source parent