[Cryptography] Why Nasdaq Is Betting On Bitcoin’s Blockchain

[Sriram Karra]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 at 23:37 John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539171/why-nasdaq-is-betting-on-bitcoins-blockchain/
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>> >Why Nasdaq Is Betting On Bitcoin’s Blockchain
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>> >Bitcoin's public transaction record will help startups keep track of
>> shares and shareholders
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>> The technology seems straightforward enough.  I'm more interested in
>> how a small scale system like this one plans to keep one mining pool
>> from getting >50% of the miners,
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I don't think they are talking of using an altchain, but use the Bitcoin
Blockchain itself. Good luck with garnering 51% mining capacity on that.
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