Title: [2015-05-13] The Guardian: Nasdaq bets on bitcoin's blockchain as the future... Post by: pawel7777 on May 13, 2015, 09:20:29 PM Nasdaq bets on bitcoin's blockchain as the future of finance http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/13/nasdaq-bitcoin-blockchain Quote The stock exchange is experimenting with ‘coloured coins’ as a way to use the public ledger to record private equity transactions The US stock-exchange Nasdaq is experimenting with incorporating the underlying technology of the bitcoin cryptocurrency into its pre-IPO trading arm, Nasdaq Private Markets. The wing, a subsidiary of the company that focuses on assisting investment for firms that are not yet publicly traded, will begin to write a copy of its trades into the publicly available ledger of all bitcoin transactions, known as the “blockchain”. ... |