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Topic: CEO of Blockchain.info tweets "Big News Dropping Tomorrow" (Read 7079 times)

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I am sure someone did lol Doubt that was a unclaimed domain
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Did somebody else own the .com before them?

If so, they had a huge pay day.
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Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.
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Yeah, Nic overpumped it a bit, but as a CEO that was big news for his company.  Maybe it's just time to think about the fact that just because something is getting pumped by a CEO of a bitcoin company doesn't mean it's something massive for bitcoin....
Yeah, hopefully everyone realizes that... he's a CEO, he's got a board of directors and shareholders, just like any other CEO, so press announcements are very important for the company image and shouldn't be taken at face-value.

But, as always... any news is good news... and Bloomberg gets around  Cheesy
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The highlight being Zeroblock would now have a realtime Orderbook:




IMO better than announcing Blockchain.com!   Tongue

Either way, it doesn't real register on the richter scale I guess.
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Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.

Push mass adoption a little further? Have you watched the bloomberg interview? Absolutely nothing was answered, he couldn't even explain what this platform does exactly, total waste of interview time.



Either you're too fcking stupid or you're just trolling.
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Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.


I hear ya.  I think people were disappointed in that they were expected something market shifting.

My reaction at first was pretty similar, although streamlining the front end is what's needed on a lot of fronts.  

Anyone here that has a lot of interest knows bitcoin has the chops, it just needs these sorts of things to help people use it.  It's boring to us, but if it helps more people use it maybe it's a good thing.

While not the market shifting to the moon sort of announcement I or a lot of people were looking for I think it may be a good thing nonetheless.

Not huge, go-home-and-boink-the-wife-with-some-Metallica-blasting great, but I'll take it.  

Yeah, Nic overpumped it a bit, but as a CEO that was big news for his company.  Maybe it's just time to think about the fact that just because something is getting pumped by a CEO of a bitcoin company doesn't mean it's something massive for bitcoin....
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Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.

Push mass adoption a little further? Have you watched the bloomberg interview? Absolutely nothing was answered, he couldn't even explain what this platform does exactly, total waste of interview time.



Pretty sure Nic Cary explained that Blockchain's existing web and mobile based ZeroBlock trading platform would use RTBTC's robust realtime trading application:

https://rtbtc.com/
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Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.

Push mass adoption a little further? Have you watched the bloomberg interview? Absolutely nothing was answered, he couldn't even explain what this platform does exactly, total waste of interview time.

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Sad to see so many people moan that things are bad for bitcoin with what's happened lately and then they rain on any news that might push mass adoption a little further... think guys, this is not a bad thing... did you manage get Bloomberg's (or anyone's) attention with a positive bitcoin story lately? If so, please share... I'd love to hear.
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Did they say how much they paid for RTBTC?

Cary said on Bloomberg he wasn't at liberty to discuss the amount of BTC they purchased RTBTC at.  My guess a very significant amount of Bitcoins as RTBTC handled over $150 million in trades since it launched last year.
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Did they say how much they paid for RTBTC?
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Apparently, Nic Cary's big news was the announcement on Bloomberg of Blockchain.info's acquisition of RTBTC, a real-time trading platform, in all Bitcoin, not a cash acquisition.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/blockchain-to-buy-bitcoin-trading-platform-BctAVYdISW2o0rYJTNK_XQ.html

Pretty significant for day traders and gives people in finance some legitimate realtime tools.

Zeroblock will incorporate RTBTC to make an aggregated order book, to trade on all the Bitcoin exchanges on desktops and mobile devices.

Not super ground shaking for the community as a whole, but gives investors something great to work with and a general front-end or dashboard in Zeroblock:

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ZeroBlock Acquires #Bitcoin Forex Trading Platform RTBTC http://ow.ly/udXp1  @BloombergTV @erikschatzker @niccary @rogerkver @aantonop
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It's either
1. Blockchain.com
2. HTML 5 wallet and blockchain.com
3. They acquired mtgox or some shit
4. Blockchain.info wallets hacked and all coins are lost and they scream trololololol as they run off to seek asylum in north korea.

Options 4 seems best to me.
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There's a new looking wallet on iphone pic...

HTML5?
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The news is basically that Blockchain.info is rebranding to Blockchain.com

Visit Blockchain.com

That can't seriously be all this is... 0.o'
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I think I know what it is, Karpeles did a harakiri and all the missing bitcoins fell out

Made me lol
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I guess people wont care so much over time. Bitcoin became too big thing to care about some companys
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It's either
1. Blockchain.com
2. HTML 5 wallet and blockchain.com
3. They acquired mtgox or some shit
4. Blockchain.info wallets hacked and all coins are lost and they scream trololololol as they run off to seek asylum in north korea.

I'm voting for #4.
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