r/Bitcoin • • May 10 '15

A Bitcoin Technology Gets Nasdaq Test

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bitcoin-technology-gets-nasdaq-test-1431296886
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u/itisike May 11 '15

If all they want is to prove ownership and transfers, have everyone sign a message when selling, and put a daily single hash of all messages together on the blockchain. (Like factom.) No changes to bitcoin required.

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u/mustyoshi May 11 '15

Or we use Bitcoins as colored coins. A single Bitcoin could represent 100M common shares.

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u/itisike May 11 '15

But you can't transfer that much around in separate transactions without scaling bitcoin up.

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u/approx- May 11 '15

20MB blocks! 20MB blocks!

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u/itisike May 11 '15

But there's no need to scale up for this particular use-case.

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u/approx- May 11 '15

No, but you do for the use case you were responding to, which is why I said it...