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Walmart "digging deep" into blockchain technology

Wal-Mart's blockchain technology team consists of five American programmers and one British programmer. They applied for two patents on their "Courier Shopping System" and "Vendor Payment Sharing System". Among them, it hopes to integrate distributed ledger technology into its shopping network, covering all operators, suppliers and customers. Through a permissioned blockchain, payments between suppliers and operators can be collected, distributed and paid. Not only that, but the network will allow peer-to-peer shopping and shopping guide services between participants, and include a reputation/rating system.

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Monitor the daily behavior of users?

It is reported that the technology behind these patents may be for user behavior monitoring. By monitoring individual consumer behavior and choices over a longer period of time, possibly the entire shopping lifecycle. Wal-Mart, a new shopping network, hopes to build a customer value system to understand what products and services they like and how they want to be delivered to them.

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"The patented technology can obtain information about a person's travel, lifestyle, calories burned over time, diet, habits, interests and affinities. By monitoring a person's behavior over time, it is possible to establish a daily routine for that user." behavioral meaning."

In addition, the patent also mentions the use of artificial intelligence technology and the integration of Internet of Things technology. The question now is, will this blockchain peer-to-peer courier service system patent monitor a person's every move in order to predict his behavior? I have to say, the further you dig into these patents, the creepier they get.

Of course, as it stands, the patent is unclear in many details, and lacks actual programming concepts and technical specifications to illustrate how behavior monitoring can be implemented on the blockchain.