IMF and World Bank Annual Meeting Discusses Block Chain’s Potential
Nermin Hajdarbegovic | Published on October 14, 2014 at 11:51 BST
The annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) meeting was held in Washington, DC, over the weekend and notably the subject of bitcoin and its underlying technology was brought up for discussion.
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"Primero te ignoran, después se ríen de ti, luego te atacan, entonces ganas" (Mahatma Ghandi)
Del ignore han pasado a reírse de bitcoin, comparándolo con el Esperanto:
“Nobody believes bitcoin or any of these will take over the world as the next global currency. In this context, some compared this to what peine with Esperanto, taking over the world’s language of choice, which as we all know, has not peine at all.”
En cuanto a "Epiphite", me llama la atención que el nombre contiene muchas constantes matemáticas: los números "e", "pi", "phi" (φ) y "tau" (podría interpretarse que "te" es "tau" (2π ó la propia φ))...
Epiphite (eπφτ) se la va poner muy dura al troll que cobra por post de la gran banca:
Although panellists do not expect bitcoin to take over the world as a currency, they are open to the idea of applying*digital currency protocols to develop new platforms and deliver new antiestéticatures.
There was recognition*that such protocols could serve as an “initial layer” upon which platforms of fully blown payment systems could be built.
“The main nicety is that this protocol conducts real-time operations, in which value is transmitted, instead of the current use of corresponding banking, representing a liability for one of the counterparties, in both, simple money transfers and FX operations. This reduces transaction costs and counterparty risk,” the bank says.
One example of potential block chain applications in the financial sector is Epiphyte, a crypto-finance platform designed to connect banking networks with cryptocurrency networks. Epiphyte won the SWIFT Innotribe Startup Competition at the Sibos 2014 event in Boston earlier this month.
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dicen:
Epiphyte*specialises in distributed ledger solutions for the mainstream financial system with the broader goal of connecting banking networks with cryptocurrency networks.
Trinc the win, Yago*said:
“We have spent the last year and a half working with banks to help them integrate distributed ledger and block chain based technologies in a low-risk and compliant way. We are building the bridge between established finance and cryptofinance.”
Pero luego, en
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, dicen algo muy diferente:
Epiphyte’s solution avoids traditional money movement avenues and instead converts currency to bitcoins, moves the coins, then cashes them out on the other end in the local tender. The bitcoins are moved for a fraction of the cost of traditional money transfers using exchanges like Coinbase and Bitpay, which*take on the currency risk. The value proposition of the company is to bring international remittances back to the banks from the startups nibbling away at the market and provide lower-cost services.