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Potential bombshell(or not) for Bitcoin coming up as Nic Cary, CEO of Blockchain.info, reveals on Twitter:


http://newsbtc.com/2014/03/03/blockchain-info-ceo-nic-cary-big-news-dropping-tomorrow/ (http://newsbtc.com/2014/03/03/blockchain-info-ceo-nic-cary-big-news-dropping-tomorrow/)

Why @marketmakers and @bloomberg also?

I have a feeling whatever he's revealing will rock the Bitcoin world and financial world completely...in a good way!    ;D

$1000 coming up...

These teasers are tedious.  If you've got an announcement to make, then just make it.

Good Bitcoin news and sushi.

I think I know what it is, Karpeles did a harakiri and all the missing bitcoins fell out

Haha plus with the level of English comprehension of the majority of bitcoin users he is liable to crash the market by using that phrase hahahaaa.

How many of our non-American friends will read that as "Big News! Bitcoin Dropping Tomorrow!" LMAO I'm serious, you got to be careful about colloquialisms with an international audience, I mean have you read half the posts around here? "Rapping on a young girl" lol

Good lord, more insider info trading..... why is Nic able to get this information.

These announcements are usually not that big of a deal. The whole point is to excite and bring people in to your product (in this case their website). We'll see but I don't think it's anything earth-shattering.

My best guess...

An HTML5 implementation of the blockchain.info wallet that will run well in a browser on iOS.

No need to rely on the iOS app store any longer.

Unfortunately true.  Lots of hype with little substance is what it is 99% of the time.  Perhaps this will be in the 1%, but I wouldn't count on it.


Why market makers?  Someone making a market in btc?  Doubtful.

This is about the launch of blockchain.com. Don't get too excited!

I hope it's that.
Or it might be that their online wallets got hacked, and that's why their blocks got stuck today.

Yes. There is no need to wait for them.

a theory

back on the day of the malleability.. gox said they were working with blockchain.info to find a solution...

... so lets say blockchin.info is the coin store of gox and the announcement is that they have the coins safe....

again this is a theory, dont get your hopes up

now you see why markets surged, insiders trading on teaser info

+ 1 i prefer unrelated news, especially positive news. i was just 'poking the bear'

Oh, fuck off.  Shit or get off the pot.  I'm sick of this kind of bullshit.

yup www.blockchain.com has coming soon with link going to blockchain.info

If that were true they would have announced it days ago, rather than allow the press to go the way it did.

What is blockchain.com expected to be? HTML5 app?

seems like it. HTML5....

+1

See the picture of the iphone on the home page?

Their answer to Apple's ban.

Big news for them, i guess.

Dam, oh well.  Guess it's not that world shaking.  Not sure what this has to do with marketmakers and bloomberg though.

Wow.  Excuse me.  Someone piss in your cheerios today?

I bet is has to do with blockchain.com...as does everybody else I see :)

Maybe he needs to pump the price up so that he can help fatso dump the stolen coins without tanking the market too much.

But on a serious note, Bitcoin is peeking its head at $700 right now, it must really suck to be someone who lost their coins on MTGOX right now.  Just imagine if you had XXXXX Bitcoins as the price is heading towards $1000 again. Sad.

Yea, more teasers to increase the volatility, I bet its not even that good.

Well, whatever it is, better be good.

No need to imagine for me. Mixed emotions. I want to see Bitcoin flourish, but really disappointed to see hard earned efforts pushing the crypto disappear because of an idiotic mistake. Disappointed to see so many haters wishing to see MtGox die. Disappointed to see the hard core technologist leave the average person loose their ass. I take full responsibility for my loss - and will chase every lost coin down until I get it back, or help build a better system or new currency where its harder for the average Joe to get ripped.

I love you.

someone please immortalize this genius in a gif.

From blockchain.com html source

"Blockchain.com Bitcoin Wallet Coming Soon"

Seems like maybe an attempt at html5 wallet for ios, and maybe a relaunch of their android wallet to feature sync.  Who knows... maybe Nick spent some time in Cupertino and signed some behind the scenes contract to integrate with apples future cash system and in return be a blessed app in the store.

hmmm.

That isn't news that should move the market?   Positive Gox news would.   We can already use blochain.info website with ios.

What if bad news?

So where's this huge news?

This is a suckers rally, the price will crash again together with the stock market.
In war times gold and silver is king.

Satoshi will reimburse all the MtGox losses from his personal 2 Million BTC cache.  ;)

smtg good is coming i feel it

you do realize market is treating bitcoin the same way as gold/silver correct?

It's either
1. Blockchain.com
2. HTML 5 wallet and blockchain.com
3. They acquired mtgox or some shit
4. Blockchain.info wallets hacked and all coins are lost and they scream trololololol as they run off to seek asylum in north korea.

The news is basically that Blockchain.info is rebranding to Blockchain.com

Visit Blockchain.com (http://www.blockchain.com)

I'm voting for #4.

I guess people wont care so much over time. Bitcoin became too big thing to care about some companys

Made me lol

That can't seriously be all this is... 0.o'

There's a new looking wallet on iphone pic...

HTML5?

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/dogecoin.jpg?w=400
Options 4 seems best to me.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/blockchain-to-buy-bitcoin-trading-platform-BctAVYdISW2o0rYJTNK_XQ.html

https://rtbtc.com/


they bought a trading platform.  

Apparently, Nic Cary's big news was the announcement on Bloomberg of Blockchain.info's acquisition of RTBTC, a real-time trading platform, in all Bitcoin, not a cash acquisition.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/blockchain-to-buy-bitcoin-trading-platform-BctAVYdISW2o0rYJTNK_XQ.html (http://www.bloomberg.com/video/blockchain-to-buy-bitcoin-trading-platform-BctAVYdISW2o0rYJTNK_XQ.html)

Pretty significant for day traders and gives people in finance some legitimate realtime tools.

Zeroblock will incorporate RTBTC to make an aggregated order book, to trade on all the Bitcoin exchanges on desktops and mobile devices.

Not super ground shaking for the community as a whole, but gives investors something great to work with and a general front-end or dashboard in Zeroblock:

Interesting news.  Curious on how fast they will be rolling all these new services.

Did they say how much they paid for RTBTC?

Cary said on Bloomberg he wasn't at liberty to discuss the amount of BTC they purchased RTBTC at.  My guess a very significant amount of Bitcoins as RTBTC handled over $150 million in trades since it launched last year.

Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.

Push mass adoption a little further? Have you watched the bloomberg interview? Absolutely nothing was answered, he couldn't even explain what this platform does exactly, total waste of interview time.

Pretty sure Nic Cary explained that Blockchain's existing web and mobile based ZeroBlock trading platform would use RTBTC's robust realtime trading application:

https://rtbtc.com/ (https://rtbtc.com/)

I hear ya.  I think people were disappointed in that they were expected something market shifting.

My reaction at first was pretty similar, although streamlining the front end is what's needed on a lot of fronts.  

Anyone here that has a lot of interest knows bitcoin has the chops, it just needs these sorts of things to help people use it.  It's boring to us, but if it helps more people use it maybe it's a good thing.

While not the market shifting to the moon sort of announcement I or a lot of people were looking for I think it may be a good thing nonetheless.

Not huge, go-home-and-boink-the-wife-with-some-Metallica-blasting great, but I'll take it.  

Yeah, Nic overpumped it a bit, but as a CEO that was big news for his company.  Maybe it's just time to think about the fact that just because something is getting pumped by a CEO of a bitcoin company doesn't mean it's something massive for bitcoin....

Either you're too fcking stupid or you're just trolling.

The highlight being Zeroblock would now have a realtime Orderbook:

https://rtbtc.com/img/platform_themes.png


IMO better than announcing Blockchain.com!   :P

Either way, it doesn't real register on the richter scale I guess.

Yeah, hopefully everyone realizes that... he's a CEO, he's got a board of directors and shareholders, just like any other CEO, so press announcements are very important for the company image and shouldn't be taken at face-value.

But, as always... any news is good news... and Bloomberg gets around  :D

Did somebody else own the .com before them?

If so, they had a huge pay day.

I am sure someone did lol Doubt that was a unclaimed domain