Chain reaction
Mar 14, 2021
4 minutes
by JEREMY REES
Farmer Jiang is raising chickens for the GoGoChicken farm in a remote village in the mountains of Guizhou province in China. He uses blockchain. Each free-range chicken wears an ankle bracelet tracking its location and movements as it feeds near the village, with its one paved road. “A chicken Fitbit of sorts,” writes Xiaowei Wang in Blockchain Chicken Farm: And other stories of tech in China’s countryside.
The “Fitbit” ensures the chickens are well. Chickens aren’t smart, says Jiang. Or brave. Sometimes at night they cluster around a light and crowd themselves to death. Their bracelet warns the farmer. More importantly, it can
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