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Nasdaq partners with Chain to bring blockchain to private market · 2

mk · 3544 days ago

"We would rather have the blockchain manage our shares than our lawyers - and God bless them, we love them, but they're expensive - and I am sick of poking around Excel trying to figure out who owns what," said Ludwin.

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psudo · 3544 days ago · link ·

This is interesting. I'm inherently suspicious of the financial industry and private markets, but at the same time I'm glad to see blockchains getting the boost to legitimacy that this will hopefully give.

+discuss+discuss

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mk · 3544 days ago · link ·

Well, one nice thing about the blockchain is that no one owns it.

What I love about that quote, is that it clearly indicates the value that Nasdaq sees in bitcoin. They say 'blockchain', but the ledger is only immutable insofar that bitcoin has value. 'Blockchain' has become a new way to talk about bitcoin without talking about bitcoin. IMO in time, saying 'bitcoin' will be akin to 'internet' and the general term 'blockchain' will be akin to 'intranet'.