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by bduerst 4019 days ago
All bitcoins are a blockchain, not all blockchains are bitcoins.

That article doesn't even mention bitcoin once.
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grubles 4019 days ago
Maybe you should google colored coins then:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Colored_Coins

"Colored coins allow you to store assets on the Bitcoin blockchain."

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bduerst 4018 days ago
What does that have to do with the article or VCs??
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brighton36 4018 days ago
NASDAQ will be settling securities on Bitcoin, using the colored coin meta-protocol. The reason NASDAQ doesn't mention Bitcoin specifically is because it's a divisive word. This is also why many institutions say 'the blockchain' instead of Bitcoin.
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bduerst 4017 days ago
But not all of Blockchain is Bitcoin, which was the point about VC money not going into Bitcoin and interest waning in Bitcoin.
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brighton36 4017 days ago
The Blockchain is made of Bitcoin. The rebranding of Bitcoin to the word "Blockchain" was a marketing decision. There is no difference.
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bduerst 4016 days ago
The blockchain is everything including hard forks. Bitcoin is whatever fork the bitcoin miner's have a consensus on.

These are very different things. You are wrong again.

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