I have seen a number of references in the .edit lately to big banks talking about how the blockchain represents a real innovation but how bitcoin itself is useless. This sounds to me like an attempt to adopt some of the advantages of bitcoin for the established banking system without giving up any of their centralized power. It seems silly to me because a large part of the appeal and value of bitcoin is its decentralized nature.
So my question is is there anything to this talk of the blockchain being the real value of bitcoin, or is this just hogwash from the big banks? Or maybe someone can link to a thread where this is discussed in detail.
Yes, we have discussed this already in many threads. This is what all of us think it's going to happen. Banks will develop their centralized blockchains.
I think that this is a way of banks and governments fighting us. And I think that is better that they fight us like this than that they ban us altogether.
I also think that this will fork for them in the beginning, but this banking system must fall a part. This is unsustainable. With the banking system will go their centralized blockchains as well and all it will rest is us!