The majority of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) network activity hasn’t anything to do with cryptocurrency.

In fact, pretty much all of its current on-chain activity comes from weatherom , an automated weather service that simply copies data from another (centralized) weather site and writes it to the BSV blockchain.

As spotted by Twitter user @painted_frog , weather.sv accounted for more than 1.23 million of BSV’s “actions” over the past month.

It was launched back in April, pitched as a way of recording local weather and climate data with the BSV blockchain. To compare, BSV-centric money transfer app MoneyButton called just 1,040 similar “actions” over the same period.

Almost incredibly, weather.sv is apparently a paid service . To begin writing local weather data to BSV, users must create a channel for around $4 (AU$5), as well as pay $0.71 ($AU1) per month to keep it open.

BSV mouthpiece CoinGeek previously described weather.sv as an example of an app developer “using OP_RETURN transactions in a practical use case.”

It’s still unclear why this service is necessary.

On the other hand, Bitcoin (BTC) currently processes around 347,000 transactions every single day — and all of them directly relate to the transfer of digital money, not the silly weather.

IBM launches tool to help grocery stores track food on the blockchain

IBM has just rolled out some new blockchain software. The global technology giant launched IBM Food Trust , a new software suite built for tracking food supply routes with distributed ledgers.

IBM Food Trust is its newest contribution to the blockchain ecosystem. It pledges to connect growers, processors, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and others to a permissioned, immutable, shared database.

The end result is supposedly an increase in food safety, freshness, sustainability, and a reduction in waste.

For a monthly fee, businesses will be able to map “ the provenance, location and [sic] status of food products on the supply chain.”

The fee will depend on the size of the operation. Businesses will fork out anywhere from $110 to $11,000 per month to use IBM Food Trust. IBM claims its new platform can even support companies with over $1 billion in annual revenue.

To this effect, IBM has confirmed major French supermarket Carrefour an active participant, announced towards the end of September.

ZDNet reports that Carrefour is to convert more than 12,000 stores across 33 countries to IBM Food Trust’s distributed ledger ecosystem.

Companies can also pay a one-time fee of $5,500 to receive “expert onboarding” from IBM directly.

IBM has built Food Trust on already existing proprietary software IBM Blockchain Project, which itself is a pre-packaged enterprise version of the Ethereum blockchain.

IBM’s blockchain tech has already been readily adopted by major players in other industries. In particular, the banking sector has experimented with platforms built on its tech to test its suitability for processing international remittances.

It remains to be seen if IBM Food Trust can truly support such large operations. After all, it has the likes of Amazon, Google , and Microsoft to compete with – who have all released similar ‘blockchain-as-a-service’ (BaaS) developer templates lately.

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Here’s what happens when you share bad blockchain blogs in an editable Google Doc

People have always said I take jokes too far. If there’s a line in the sand marked “ too far ,” I regularly speed past it like Lewis Hamilton in the Monaco Grand Prix, until it’s just a faint shadow in the rear-view mirror. Take, for example, the unfortunate KFoodRecipes .

KFoodRecipes (presumably not his real name) tried to get a really spammy promotional guest post published on TNW. The post was about one of the many nebulous blockchain companies that have sprung up of late, called Ubex. It was bad .

He was persistent, and he even tried to bribe anyone who would respond to his tweets with the insultingly low-ball amount of $10. Obviously, we had fun with him.

I strung him along and tried to get him to say “what’s updog,” because I’m a five-year-old cunningly disguised as a 26-year-old.

(An unoriginal one at that, as this is a joke PR maven Ed Zitron has been pulling for years , but as Wilde purportedly once said “ talent borrows, genius steals, ” ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

But then my afternoon took an amusing turn when UK-based publicist Rich Leigh spotted that KFoodRecipes had left the document publicly editable . Then the fun really began.

We couldn’t help ourselves. Suddenly every reference to “blockchain” was replaced with “updog.”

Then “Ubex” became “your mum.”

And then the trolling picked up momentum, and random strangers started turning this dreadful blog post into something that wouldn’t have looked out of place on GeoCities circa-1999. I’m talking about retro GIFs, all-pink text, and the generous use of comic sans. Someone even copied in the entire lyrics to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air .

Right now, the document is unrecognizable from its original self, which is to say that it’s way, way better. I won’t spoil the rest for you. Seriously, it’s funny.

You can check out the live link here . At the time of writing, it’s being edited by at least sixteen different people, which just shows the power of the Internet. Obviously we’re not responsible for anything you see — which at this point includes random Gary Vaynerchuck motivational images.

There’s a good mix of PR flacks, tech reporters, and random deviants in the fray (Zitron and Forbes’ Curtis Silver fall into at least two of those categories), which shows that deep down, we’re not all that different. Despite our issues, we can all get behind a good cause (assuming that cause is Internet chicanery).

And I also took a backup of the original document , should something unfortunate happen to it, because god forbid this spectacular moment in trolling be lost.

TNW reached out to KFoodRecipes for comment, but at the time of publishing, we’re yet to hear back from him. I’m not sure why.

That said, I wouldn’t feel too sorry for him though. At least we mentioned Ubex!