Porsche introduces blockchain to cars • Hacker News Board

Re: Porsche introduces blockchain to cars

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Post by magneticnorth » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:19 PM UTC

scrumper wrote: post #5

Porsche has been playing with new ownership models recently, including a sort of membership club where a fixed monthly payment gets you access to any model. So this blockchain-based entitlements thingumy could be seen as an attempt to put in a flexible technology to support more experimentation along those lines.

Thank you - this seems like the missing piece that might answer the obvious "but why?" the article title inspires.

Re: Porsche introduces blockchain to cars

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Post by wpasc » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 11:25 PM UTC

toomanydatsuns wrote: post #6

I wonder if they're just announcing this to see what it can do for their stock price. At the risk of saying something completely reductive, I feel like any technical person with a beginner's grasp of what blockchain technology can do is only going to say "but why", and the appeal here is going to be limited to speculators or people impressed by the social proof that blockchain is impressive to others.

I could not agree with you more, the hype to reality ration surrounding blockchain is beyond ridiculous to the point that a mental heuristic saying "any blockchain headline is bullshit" becomes more accurate with each new article...

Re: Porsche introduces blockchain to cars

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Post by WheelsAtLarge » Thu, Mar 01, 2018, 1:00 AM UTC

I suspect that blockchain will eventually serve as a peer to peer database. If you can make it secure and no one needs to put up the infrastructure to maintain then it's a boon for car makers. We have a long way to go but it has promise.

Porsche is starting so it seems like BS but it has potential as it develops.