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I don't understand how this solves the problem:

- if all links in the supply-chain are properly verifying/tracking components, why can't they send this verif/tracking data to their client's server?

- if they're not making a good-faith effort, what does blockchain solve?

Blockchain is genuinely good at maintaining an immutable, trust-free ledger. It's NOT good at making sure the data that's written to it is true.

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It does not, that's why a blockchain on it's own does not solve the problem but in conjunction with other technologies it could. E.g. food - you have to make sure your sensors (Temperature etc) are tamper proof, but you also have to find a way to make it hard to seperate the sensor from the goods. Only then it would make sense to use it as an oracle. Also if you make it hard enough to cheat the sensor at some point it's just easier to cool the goods and transport them accordingly.

Right, so it really doesn't solve anything. It just passes the buck further down.

Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem, here.

>It's NOT good at making sure the data that's written to it is true.

if you can't trust the manufacturer to begin with (as is the alleged case with super micro) then this is totally useless.

Yeah. That’s what the adults were talking about.

We can’t trust the supply chain.

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