DLT Goes Viral as Live Coronavirus Tracking Spreads to the Blockchain

Blockchain-enabled applications developer Acoer has created a data visualization tool to track the deadly coronavirus.

"HashLog allows for the real-time visualization of coronavirus data and trends. This includes the overall number of cases globally, rates of deaths and recovery per infections, cases filtered by country, as well as Google trends by interest and region on coronavirus."

Interestingly, both the data tracking map created by Johns Hopkins University and HashLog show the specific regions where the coronavirus has been reported.

It's important to note that while blockchain is a type of distributed ledger, Hedera Hashgraph's white paper explains that the company's technology incorporates every transaction into its ledger.

"Hedera's distributed ledger technology ensures that information cannot be manipulated or changed without the world seeing it. Acoer's Hashlog takes advantage of Hedera as the trust layer of the internet to allow users to be confident in the real-time information they receive related to the coronavirus."

Mance further explained that this use case utilizes Hedera's mirror node functionality, letting any user who wants to view the ledger tracking the coronavirus to run a mirror node.

According to Mance, mirror nodes are capable of scaling infinitely, tracking anything from health care to financial information as a source of truth.

Blockchain's role to support coronavirus victims.

Blockchain technology is also being used to support the thousands of coronavirus victims.

Hyperchain's platform uses blockchain to ensure that donations are traceable and immutable, providing donors with transparency to see exactly where their donations are going to fight against the coronavirus.