[2016-05-03] BS: Banks, tech companies move on from bitcoin to blockchain

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Banks, tech companies move on from bitcoin to blockchain

http://www.business-standard.com/article/reuters/banks-tech-companies-move-on-from-bitcoin-to-blockchain-116050300061_1.html

As a debate raged across the internet Monday over whether the mysterious founder of the bitcoin digital currency had finally been identified, executives at a major bitcoin conference in New York had a simple message: we've moved on.

That's because bitcoin, the digital currency, has largely been supplanted by blockchain, the technology that underlies it, as the main interest of investors, technology companies and financial institutions.