Quote from: gatecoin on January 08, 2016, 09:33:00 AM

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Globally, there seems to be a shift in hype from Bitcoin to blockchain. In July 2015, Coindesk reported that the Monetary Authority of Singapore funded a blockchain-based record-keeping system as part of a five-year $225 million investment plan aimed at financial technology. Then, in September of this year, nine major financial companies banded together to form R3, a blockchain technology research company. R3 has quickly grown to a consortium of 30 of the world's biggest banks that include Barclays, BBVA, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, and Wells Fargo among several others.

Although you cannot make a blockchain without a digital currency, you will be hard-pressed to find the term "Bitcoin" used anywhere at events like these. Perhaps the big banks and some Bitcoin startups can see that Bitcoin is the future but they don't want the negative stigma currently associated with Bitcoin in the public's eye. Jonathan Chester, CEO of Bitwage, wrote in a recent Forbes op-ed piece: "Halfway through the first day of the conference I started to use the word blockchain instead of Bitcoin. Instead of recoiling, prospects stayed to listen to us, eventually learning that the blockchain concept is the foundation of every cryptocurrency, and leaving us their business cards. When Bitcoin did come up, we had already developed some rapport and a lot of positive ideas had been conveyed, so it wasn't an immediate conversation killer."

So what do Banks really want out of this?

Full blog post: https://gatecoin.com/blog/2016/01/from-bitcoin-to-blockchain/

banks really want to adopt blockchain technology,they know that technology will bring them to the future,nest global payment,more fast and secure,and they want bring bitcoin because its too risk for them.