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Topic: Business Model of new company 21 Inc predicted by Satoshi? - page 2. (Read 2044 times)

legendary
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Do you mean instant confirmation? I think you have never heard about greenAddress, it is a web wallet with an instant confirmation (the only rule is that also the other part uses it). Now it can be used for any payment processor.
I used to use green address until after an update it stopped working altogether, another update later and it's back working but slow as to open, it's empty now so i won't be using it again.

Has someone got a quick explanation of how instant transactions work.

An instant transaction wouldn't really be "instant" it was just be "instantly trusted" by those in the network. It could work like this:

A multibillion dollar company establish good rapport in the community and acts as a middle man. Each of us has a "bank account" with them in which we keep some fraction of our bitcoin. This huge/trusted company has 1 well known public address. We walk into a store and use our app that is run by this company, we scan the stores QR code and the bitcoin is sent to the store from that well known public address on our behalf, then the well known company deducts that amount of bitcoin from our "bank account" with them.

The store then sees that the payment came from a well known/regulated/large company and that they "are good for it" meaning that they will not try to create any double spends, thus the transaction is still on the bitcoin blockchain and the transaction is "instantly trusted" by the store, allowing the store to then give the customer the goods with confidence that there will be no double spend and thus no need to wait for confirmations.
legendary
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Do you mean instant confirmation? I think you have never heard about greenAddress, it is a web wallet with an instant confirmation (the only rule is that also the other part uses it). Now it can be used for any payment processor.
I used to use green address until after an update it stopped working altogether, another update later and it's back working but slow as to open, it's empty now so i won't be using it again.

Has someone got a quick explanation of how instant transactions work.
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Maybe it wasn't a prediction but the company founders looking at his posts and getting the idea from there to launch the company

Exactly Wink
legendary
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Do you mean instant confirmation? I think you have never heard about greenAddress, it is a web wallet with an instant confirmation (the only rule is that also the other part uses it). Now it can be used for any payment processor.
legendary
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Secret company.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-40808
Satoshi was very secretive, hmm maybe there could be some conection there, it's a long shot.
legendary
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i think satoshi predicted that too, yes. he had a very good foresight.
legendary
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Maybe it wasn't a prediction but the company founders looking at his posts and getting the idea from there to launch the company
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Business Model of new company 21 Inc predicted by Satoshi?

Plausible speculation:
New company 21 Inc to offer realtime payment confirmations for bitcoin:
"More likely, in my opinion, is that they want to become/create ‘trusted nodes’ within the Bitcoin mining network permitting merchants & machines near-instant confidence that their transactions will be 100% confirmed. "
Source: http://alistairmilne.com/2015/03/14/what-is-21-inc-developing/

Satoshi:
"I believe it'll be possible for a payment processing company to provide as a service the rapid distribution of transactions with good-enough checking in something like 10 seconds or less."
Source: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3819
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