SMW: Hype around blockchain fails to impress
Issues such as a lack of standardised procedures, an unwillingness to share information with hundreds of other businesses — some of them competitors — and the extra cost of data storage make blockchain a farfetched application for the shipping industry in the near term.
Fears expressed that an open, distributed ledger used to record everything would let far too much data fall into the hands of business rivals
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