Quote from: molecular on January 23, 2016, 10:33:26 AM

Quote from: mymenace on January 22, 2016, 09:51:00 PM

the battle of the blockchains

Quote from: mymenace on January 22, 2016, 09:46:26 PM

Quote from: loki0505 on January 22, 2016, 09:34:02 PM

http://coinjournal.net/prediction-10-billion-will-be-invested-in-blockchain-startups-in-2016/

Its already started. I mean, my estimate is that were going to see $1 billion come into the Ethereum ecosystem in 2016 alone, and the general estimates for the amount of money going into the entire blockchain ecosystem, including Bitcoin, is on the order of $10 billion. - Vinay Gupta (original CypherPunk member)

from what i understand huge consortium of financial institutions invested in R3 (Mike Hearn) using the ethereum programming

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/r3-connects-11-banks-distributed-ledger-using-ethereum-microsoft-azure-1539044

other financial institutions using the legacy open source linux hyperledger

ASX is testing this at the moment

bit hard to ignore other blockchains

how is it even a battle? I love bitcoin (first application of blockchain tech to create a money) and I don't see how these other efforts are competition at all. Banks want to keep their FIAT anyway, they're applying blockchain tech to other problems, like settlement of stock trade, tracking of asset ownership and the like. I applaud them because it can make the financial sector more efficient and above all: more transparent and therefore safer.

Trippin balls i see..