{"id":538,"date":"2017-04-21T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=538"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:48:31","slug":"from-the-web-can-this-startup-use-blockchain-to-brew-up-more-sustainable-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/21\/from-the-web-can-this-startup-use-blockchain-to-brew-up-more-sustainable-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Can this startup use blockchain to brew up more sustainable coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-549\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-1.45.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1558\" height=\"1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-1.45.12-PM.png 1558w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-1.45.12-PM-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-1.45.12-PM-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-1.45.12-PM-1024x691.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-21-at-1.45.12-PM-444x300.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An entrepreneur with a background in verifying the provenance of so-called conflict minerals is applying that expertise to keep tabs on one of the world&#8217;s most widely traded commodities: coffee. Tracking this kitchen staple requires a m\u00e9lange of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and the internet of things.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of his venture, <strong>bext360<\/strong>, is to help coffee buyers automate their dealings with fair-trade farmers, allowing them to more closely track the source and quality of the fair trade beans they\u2019re buying while speeding up payments for local growers.<\/p>\n<p>For buyers, the service promises deeper transparency, as well as a way of automating the verification process. For harvesters and growers \u2014 largely women \u2014 the service could mean more ready access to investment capital, according to bext360 CEO Daniel Jones.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/can-startup-use-blockchain-brew-more-sustainable-coffee\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<em>(via GreenBiz)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entrepreneur with a background in verifying the provenance of so-called conflict minerals is applying that expertise to keep tabs on one of the world&#8217;s most widely traded commodities: coffee. Tracking this kitchen staple requires a m\u00e9lange of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and the internet of things. The goal of his venture, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/21\/from-the-web-can-this-startup-use-blockchain-to-brew-up-more-sustainable-coffee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Can this startup use blockchain to brew up more sustainable coffee?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000],"tags":[17503,41478,4433],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-8G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}