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On March 17th 2016, Sony Corporation will finish judging all the projects presented at the Fintech Innovation Challenge 2016, organized by the Japan-based company itself alongside Matchi. The challenge aims to bring the best minds in banking and the world's brilliant innovators together.

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I would like to see full integration of Bitcoin into Sony televisions, linking your phone with a APP to control your television as a remote and also to watch

streaming movies via your television and paying with your phone's built in APP. They should partner up with Streamium and get some pay-per-view

content going via the built-in television app. Now that will be nice!

The entertainment blockchain sounds frightening. We might have to increase blocksize if they are going to add 2 hour films to the blockchain. :)

I would imagine that Sony's interest in BTC has to do with security. Sony has had some devastating data breaches and have become more encryption mined over time. Their Playstation 4 has come under attack by fearful governments due to it's well encrypted security. Bitcoin would go further in securing their users by allowing payments that do not involve storing your banking/credit information. Holding your information is a huge liability for Sony and this gets them out of that.

Is this good news for bitcoin?
I think so should i say,if such big name as sony is interested in bitcoin.
Maybe it could give some more and good publicity to bitcoin? Or do you think something else?

So Will I can buy games for PS4 by this? I keep ones fingers crossed.

This is a smart move by Sony. Sony has been struggling in recent years in the smartphone industry against Samsung and iPhone.

Accepting bitcoin and integrating a bitcoin payment app into their smartphone software would be a step forward into the future of online and smartphone payments.

I'm a Sony smartphone user as well as a PS4 user, can't wait to start using bitcoin to pay for my apps and games. Great move Sony!

Sony has good smartphones with the last generation (Z-series), if Sony integrate bitcoin, this will really change the market price.

Agreed. And the cool part is that Qualcomm has developed the chips for bitcoin hard coded transactions. Everything is in place for a bit-phone. 

Not just bit-phones but bit-tv, bit-ps4 etc, can't found the completed list but sony has many many products: http://www.sony.co.in/section/product

What on earth are you talking about? Blocks are used for recording transactions, not for carrying media content.

Back on topic, the challenge category is "Useful solutions related to film and music industries using Blockchain." So it doesn't necessarily involve bitcoin. We shouldn't conflate "bitcoin" and "blockchain".

Hey cool Its great news for us. Bitcoin price will also get increase accordingly.

Yup its great may be in future Android playstore also may accept bitcoin for purchasable games and apps. We can play stations with bitcoin itself. Really great attempt from Sony corporation.
Thanks Sony;)

I don't think that Play Store (aka Google Play) will accept bitcoin because they have their own wallet called Google Wallet.

If Sony brings Bitcoin to the PlayStation store to buy games with that would be amazing because Bitcoin will get a lot more exposure worldwide.

its a good thing i must admit, there will be a lot of people who will get interestrd in bitcoin because of that

Is Sony catching up or are they to late like SEGA vs. Nintendo?

Hope they go full hog and bring it more to the masses.

I think just the same.
I think it is a good thing that sony should bring bitcoin to playstation.
THat is very good for the publicity. Good publicity is what we need.

Yes, Google Play have its own wallet, but this wallet can be filled with Dollars, Euros, Rubles, Yuans, Krona, Guaranis, Pesos,Bolivars,  ... Why it couldn't accept bitcoins, litecoins and any other crypto coin?

If there is one company that could do with the security that a blockchain provides it is sony.  it wouldnt be the first time they have lost all their customers sensitive data...... :-\

remember folks, it says 'blockchain'

so expect Sonycoin.. not bitcoin

BlockchainBusters.

Does it matter what your squabble? Bitcoins dying in front of your eyes and the saddest thing is that you cannot see it because you are too busy squabbling over shite.

The bitcoin is dead. Long live Ethereum.

Yeah, hopefully their enormous wallet won't get hacked along with blackmailing.  I love Sony, I really do but they can be real pussfags.  They used to make great calculators.

Why bitcoin is dying? Can u explain this a bit more, I didn't see any signs for that to happen so I'm curious what u know about this.

relax. its one of the blockstream shills. doing all they can to tempt people over to the altcoin/sidechains. (all pre-mined of course) even the ethereum crew were promised coins MONTHS before it was released. so dont expect them to win favours.

I would guess that they are going to try to make their own private blockchain that they can control.

As much as I love Sony to choose BTCitcoin by end of March 17th 2016, I won't be surprise that they acquire Blockchain technology only and come up with their own coin (perhaps Sonycoin). What their doing at the moment for looking into Blockchain is the right move due to security breaches that were on their way in the past so this would be good for Sony users and it could be only good for us, if they use BTCitcoin completely and not just Blockchain technology.

One good move will be Sony taking bitcoin for music download... I will definitely support that!

I think they are only interested in blockchain technology and not bitcoin itself. But whO  knows, sony might consider bitcoin too as payment in the future. That would be really great for all of us.