blockchin

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   by blockchin 11y ago

   Tl;DR There can be no single point of failure in the delivery of securities nor the payment stage. Identical information is relayed to all market participants at all times, consolidated on a single global ledger (although the option to jump
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   by blockchin 11y ago

   In a simplified way you can use the Bitcoin scripting system to make binding bids and offers without needing a central exchange. And you can achieve person to person atomic swaps of currency for securities – delivery versus payment – witho
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   by blockchin 11y ago

   > Reports of Wall Street adopting it for settlement purposes seem slightly optimistic Here is just one example: (and I'm aware of many more pilot programs) http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nasdaq-launches-en
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   by blockchin 11y ago

   Any asset can be created on top of the bitcoin with meta-layers such as CounterParty [1] (which is what Symbiont is basing their solution off of) Colored coins [2] or a hybrid approach [3] recently demoed by Deloitte [1] http:/&#x