{"id":27871,"date":"2020-08-28T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27871"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:40:23","slug":"starbucks-begins-tracking-coffee-supply-with-microsoft-blockchain-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/starbucks-begins-tracking-coffee-supply-with-microsoft-blockchain-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks begins tracking coffee supply with Microsoft blockchain solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The well-known coffeehouse chain Starbucks has begun using a blockchain solution from Microsoft that allows customers in the United States to trace the origin of their coffee. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-08-25\/starbucks-clients-can-now-trace-their-coffee-and-so-can-farmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a>, the origin and roasting location of coffee beans can be traced using a special code on coffee packs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farmers will receive a separate code. With it, they will be able to track their produce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new blockchain-based tool from Microsoft is aimed at attracting a younger audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, it was announced that Starbucks, in partnership with Microsoft, would give customers access to information about the coffee in the pack they bought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, the cryptocurrency platform Bakkt began testing the Bakkt Cash option in the Starbucks app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The well-known coffeehouse chain Starbucks has begun using a blockchain solution from Microsoft that allows customers in the United States to trace the origin of their coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,15,1907],"class_list":["post-27871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-microsoft","tag-starbucks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27872,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871\/revisions\/27872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}