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Apple Pivots to Intel for a Secure Western Supply Chain of Semiconductors

11 May 2026 1 minute read 5 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Apple and Intel formally reconcile to once again produce chips.  As 2027 nears and the likelihood of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan rising, the risks to serious global chip disruption is something that cannot be ignored.  Apple is smart to diversify th...

The Bronze Age Collapse: History's First Supply Chain Crisis

19 Mar 2026 4 minute read 3 comments Perfectionist25

When Mediterranean civilizations collapsed one after another in 1177 BC, the cause wasn't simply invaders or earthquakes. The cause was the fragility of a system dependent on an alloy that no one could produce alone. Bronze is an alloy of copper and...

The Silent Collapse of JavaScript Protocols

10 Sep 2025 1 minute read 6 comments Myxoplixx

The market is misreading one of the largest security events in decentralized finance this year. A recent npm supply chain attack compromised 387 packages with more than 1 billion downloads. At first glance, traders are treating this like a $100 milli...

They finally did it!

31 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments Kovichni

I was so proud when I first saw this, it was like all that waiting and believing was worth it and now finally paid off. Frequent readers will know I often rant about how useful blockchain can be in the world of supply chain/logistics, and how every t...

Our dreams have become a reality: blockchain traceable microchipped cheese

21 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Kovichni

Yes our day has finally come. This is the moment we all eagerly waited for ever since Satoshi embedded that legendary first message in the genesis block: 'Cheese on brink of counterfeit, edible microchip activated'. Planning on having melted parmesan...

Why didn't Louis Vuitton, Dior, Prada and Cartier partner with any existing blockchain but decide to create their own?

25 Feb 2023 5 minute read 6 comments Kovichni

Anyone remember the panic around logistics/supply chain cryptos in 2019 when Louis Vuitton decided to create their own blockchain instead of partnering with an existing one with already proven crypto teams/developers? That blockchain was eventually c...

The American Supply Chain Crisis and Why Increasing the Money Supply Solves Nothing

26 Jan 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Disclaimer: This content has been reposted here with the permission of Dwayne Chapman. Any tips earned on it will be sent to him (assuming that it's viable to do so); I'm not going to intentionally profit off another man's labour, because that would...

Global Single Point of Failure?

22 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Global Single Point of Failure?   We are not talking about Supply Chain choke points, we are pointing out the one (1),  Chip manufacturer that has the world waiting... for its chips. Who am I talking about?  TSMC - AKA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactur...

VeChain (VET) Supply Chain Coin Overview

29 Mar 2021 4 minute read 5 comments MintDice.com

As Bitcoin continues its growth vector towards the moon, another formerly unknown altcoin has recently snagged a top 20 cryptocurrency spot on the website known as CoinMarketCap. This coin is called VeChain, and although it may be relatively unknown,...

SUKU launces new DeFi protocol: banking the unbanked

26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments defidarby7

"Bank the unbanked" has been a phrase I've been hearing since the day I first got involved in crypto circa 2016. While  that's  certainly a commendable mission statement, rarely do I see any projects actually taking steps toward that becoming a reali...