[brighton36]

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.

[bduerst]

But not all of Blockchain is Bitcoin, which was the point about VC money not going into Bitcoin and interest waning in Bitcoin.

[brighton36]

The Blockchain is made of Bitcoin. The rebranding of Bitcoin to the word "Blockchain" was a marketing decision. There is no difference.

[bduerst]

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.