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That blockchain is so hot right now. Blockchain. It is, without question, the word I\u2019ve heard the most recently without having any idea what it means. It generally goes along the lines of, \u201csomething something Bitcoin something something blockchain something something.\u201d It\u2019s very technical. But now, a coffee company is using blockchain technology to bring more transparency to each cup of coffee. Put another way, \u201csomething something coffee something something blockchain.\u201d<\/p>\n
In its most uncomplicated form, blockchain is just a cloud-based ledger that records transactions. According to the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, Denver\u2019s Coda Coffee<\/a> is applying this new fangled record-keeping to tracking coffee from the farm to the coffee shop. Each coffee they sell is given a QR code that customers can scan to \u201csee the date and location of every transaction\u2014from collection at the farm to washing and drying, milling, export, roasting and retail.\u201d<\/p>\n For this traceability to work, new processes have to be put in place at origin. To catalog new coffees, farmers in Eastern Uganda put their crop through a machine that \u201canalyzes the beans and assigns them a lot number that customers can trace.\u201d Called the \u201cbextmachine,\u201d that analyzer was created by Denver startup Bext360<\/a> and is intended to be a useful tool for more than just the end user.<\/p>\n Listen, I’m not sure if this whole Bitcoin blockchain thing will be around in 10 years or if it will go the way of the pet rock, but like, a pet rock that you can use as currency on the dark web. But nonetheless, transparency in coffee is a good thing and trying to use new technologies\u2014whether ultimately successful or not\u2014to increase traceability is worth attempting. So yeah, I’m willing to take my coffee with a side of blockchain. I’m still not sure if I’m using that right.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Trace Your Coffee Using Blockchain<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That blockchain is so hot right now. Blockchain. It is, without question, the word I\u2019ve heard the most recently without having any idea what it means. It generally goes along…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,67,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nThe bextmachine also furnishes better information to the businesses along the supply chain, like Coda, by conducting a three-dimensional scan of the outer fruit of each bean. In providing more detail on quality and characteristics of the coffee beans at the farm level, the machine helps wholesalers and roasters learn which attributes produce certain tastes\u2014helping them adjust future sourcing decisions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n