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- The US Commerce Department will publish official GDP and economic statistics on the blockchain.
- The initiative aims to modernize data distribution and make federal statistics more accessible via blockchain technology.
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The US Department of Commerce plans to publish official economic statistics, including GDP data, on the blockchain, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday during a White House cabinet meeting.
“The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you are the crypto president,” Lutnick said.
The plan focuses on releasing GDP figures on-chain to enable people to “use the blockchain for data distribution,” Lutnick said. The department aims to expand its capability across other government agencies.
“We’re going to make that available to the entire government so all of you can do it,” Lutnick said. He noted that officials are “just ironing out all the details” to implement the program.
The move would mark one of the first major implementations of blockchain technology for US government economic reporting.
This is a developing story.
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