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If they really didn't see anything in it (be it profit or wanting to get to market "first"), then there wouldn't be so many large firms investing in their own b
by Dirlewanger 9y ago
If they really didn't see anything in it (be it profit or wanting to get to market "first"), then there wouldn't be so many large firms investing in their own blockchain tech.
- Daishiman 9y agoIt's called hedging bets. That's how you become an established player.
- jethro_tell 9y agoYou hire 50k people and throw 5/10 at block chain just to make sure you don't get caught with your pants down. That's barely an investment.
- Daishiman 9y agoThey will acquihire when the time is right. They have absolutely no need to do any in-house tech whatsoever.
- pyre 9y agoInvestment (in blockchain tech) by major players does not (in and of itself) prove that they feel threatened by Bitcoin. Blockchain tech can have utility to those players outside of Bitcoin.
- Torgo 9y agoPermissioned blockchains contain almost none of the interesting properties of a public, untrusted-node blockchain, and function mostly as a signed-transaction append-only database.