On a ranch in northern Wyoming, not far from the Belle Fourche river, a few hundred calves are making history. They are being tagged and castrated and branded with irons, as is normal, a couple of months after birth. But what is new is that their IDs are now logged on a blockchain: part of a push by America’s least populated and most minerals-dependent state to position itself at the front of the “crypto” revolution.
在美国怀俄明州北部,离贝尔富什河(Belle Fourche River)不远处的一座农场,几百头小牛正在创造历史。它们在出生两个月后被打了标记,做了阉割,用烙铁烙了烙印,这都是惯例。其新鲜之处在于,它们的身份现在被登记在区块链上。此举是美国人口最少、最依赖矿产的州的一项努力的一部分,目的是置身于“加密”革命的前沿。