The White House will put government statistics on the blockchain (yes, we don’t know why either)

Remember in 2017 when the Bitcoin price has skyrocketed and companies started to promise to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, because blockchain technology has very little practical ends that cannot be resolved by an old -fashioned regular database. But it seems that the White House has just received the memo and wants to inaugurate the world of 2017 again.

President Donald Trump held a televised “cabinet meeting” at the White House which traveled more than 3 hours and 15 minutes on Tuesday. It was a marathon session of ass of the most despicable characters of the Trump regime. But the announcement that really marked us, apart from all the normalization of fascist language, was the promise of the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lungick, to put government statistics on the blockchain.

“The Ministry of Commerce will start to issue its Blockchain statistics because you are the president of cryptography, and we will turn off the GDP on the blockchain so that people can use the blockchain for data distribution,” said Lutnick.

“And then we will make this available to the whole government so that you can do it. We take back all the details so that we can do it.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aayn2j2n3sm

Lutnick then quickly went to another subject, but it was a strange thing to suggest. Why the blockchain? Apparently, because Lutnick associates it with crypto. But it is difficult to imagine what problems for setting up statistics on the blockchain will solve.

The idea behind the blockchain is that it is a great decentralized book. And it is an interesting idea, but that does not really solve many problems beyond the maintenance of the existence of cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. A calculation sheet or normal database generally works very well to distribute information of the type that LUTNICK wishes to extinguish.

Trump sadly designed with some of the main government officials who produce government statistics, dismissed the head of the Labor Statistics Office, Erika Mcentarfer, earlier this month. Trump falsely said that Mcentarfer had produced “fake” data that had been “manipulated for political purposes” when figures have been revised to show less job growth than that was previously reported.

Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, has just announced a new partnership with Crypto.com on Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal, so maybe the promise of Lutnick to put statistics on the blockchain was inspired by it in one way or another. Anyway behind the idea, Trump and his family raised billions of dollars thanks to their crypto associations.

The meeting has gone to many other strange places, especially when Trump was questioned on his plans to deploy the National Guard in the blue cities of the country. The president flooded Washington, DC, with federal agents on the pretext of repressing the crime.

“The line is that I am a dictator, but I stop the crime. So many people say:” You know, if that’s the case, I prefer to have a dictator “,” said Trump on Tuesday.

Trump expressed the same feeling on Monday, clearly indicating that it was not only a verbal shift. He really wants to normalize the idea that dictators can get a bad envelope and are necessary to fight crime. And he threatened to send troops to places like Chicago as a show of force.

Maybe they can also put statistics on crime on blockchain. Why not? This is supposed to be the solution for everything, according to crypto fans. Now, if we could ask a White House journalist to ask Trump what he thinks that blockchain technology is in question. It would almost certainly be a comic response from the 79 -year -old man.