Can Blockchain Make Sex Obsolete?

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Of course not, but that headline isn’t any more outrageous than most of the claims that you see in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency space. Every day I get an email from a company wanting PR, or read a headline about how blockchain is going to ensure this, that or the other. Let’s take something like Bananas, I’ve seen a number of projects in this space believe it or not. One of them was telling me that blockchain will ensure that your Organic Bananas have in fact never had pesticides used on them. This is a ridiculous assertion and goes back to the early days of computing, namely GIGO (Garbage In/Garbage Out). If the original person inputting the data lies about it, then that’s it, your data is only as good as the humans that got it in there to start. Sure, everything is secured on the blockchain after that, but it does no good if the starting data is bad.