{"id":231313,"date":"2017-10-02T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231313"},"modified":"2017-10-02T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:58:06","slug":"deloitte-tracks-ship-certificates-using-blockchain-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/231313-deloitte-tracks-ship-certificates-using-blockchain-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Deloitte tracks ship certificates using blockchain technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deloitte has implemented blockchain technology to help it track ship safety certificates across the world, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/deloitte-dnv-gls-deal-marks-key-moment-non-finance-blockchain-uses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CoinDesk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company partnered with DNV GL to implement a private, shared blockchain which aims to reduce the occurrence of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional verification, safety, and environmental impact certificates for ships and offshore structures can be forged, and ensuring a given certificate is genuine can be a time-consuming process.<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte&#8217;s solution creates a digital ID for each certificate on its private blockchain, removing the potential of fraud. Certificates are verified by scanning a QR code on the document.<\/p>\n<p>The process is almost instantaneous and requires little overhead in terms of processing power.<\/p>\n<p>The authentication system was deployed in September and there are currently 90,000 certificates stored on the blockchain.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/228403-blockchain-developers-battle-over-1-billion-in-cryptocurrency.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blockchain developers battle over $1 billion in cryptocurrency<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deloitte has implemented blockchain technology to help it track ship safety certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":180926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696,27],"tags":[38499,5282,46417,46415],"class_list":["post-231313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-security","tag-blockchain","tag-deloitte","tag-dnv-gl","tag-ship-certificates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231341,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231313\/revisions\/231341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}