Tech firm Finboot has called on the UK Government to urgently re-think its blockchain strategy in the wake of China’s National Blockchain Research Center<\/a>coming online and an answer to a written Parliamentary Question revealing worrying timidity. <\/p>\n Launched in May in Beijing, China’s National Blockchain Center is focusing on the industrialization of blockchain technology. This is a game changer. China understands, what the tech industry has known for some time, that blockchain is the killer app for capital intensive industries to get to net zero. Blockchain highlights emission pinch points across the entire supply chain and shows traceability at each stage too. In opening this National Blockchain Center China is signaling it intends to dominate this software industry as it essentially dominates the silicon chip manufacturing industry on the hardware side. <\/p>\n The UK’s strategy meanwhile, as revealed in a written answer<\/a> to a question from Rt Hon Kevan Jones MP<\/a> is rather weak and timid in comparison: \u201cBlockchain technologies\u2026 still need to demonstrate that they could offer advantages over technology using centralized ledgers in specific applications related to decarbonisation.\u201d <\/p>\n Nish Kotecha, chair and co-founder, Finboot tech, a blockchain provider, said: \u201cThe UK needs to re-think its wider blockchain strategy, and quickly, or there is a real risk that China will steal a march on the UK and indeed the world.<\/p>\n \u201cChina gets that blockchain has applications beyond crypto in terms of helping heavy industry decarbonise and get to net-zero quickly and so is seeking to embed it across its economy and trading systems.<\/p>\n \u201cWhereas the UK is dithering. If Global Britain is to mean anything we need to have the gold standard in terms of trade systems vis-a-vis visibility, traceability and transparency. Blockchain is that gold standard for data management across federated stakeholders such as supply chains.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the UK does act and enables blockchain across the economy then the UK can lead the world in terms of global trading standards and help the world decarbonise at the same time. Let’s grasp the opportunity blockchain provides\u201d.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.blockchaintechnology-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/06\/image.png\" "\\"\\"")
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