What if you could wave your phone over a piece of fish at a store and immediately see a record of its path through the supply chain? This may soon be possible. Current experiments are testing technology that can show how the fish was caught, when it was shipped and how it was processed at a factory. This technology, called Blockchain, is being tested for its potential to bring light to secretive industries in Southeast Asia.
Blockchain was first developed to confirm dealings in bitcoin, a digital money. In that case, the technology creates a public financial record.
In Southeast Asia important records, including those of identity information and property ownership, are often not carefully kept.
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