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shawn_j

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http://www.wired.com/2014/07/overstock-and-cryptocurrency/

I saw this on reddit. looks exciting, it would draw mainstream attention to the bitcoin 2.0 applications, and show that legitimate businesses can benefit from the bitcoin ecosystem, more than just taking payments through bitpay or coinbase. it'll be interesting to follow this and see if Byrne follows through. In the bitcoin 2014 keynote, he mentioned doing this. "I better watch what I say, next thing you know I'll have 40 employees trapped in a hotel room again.."

Posted on July 30, 2014 at 1:03 PM

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• Cryptonaut

  

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  was reading about this earlier, very cool. The counterparty eco system is looking pretty promising.

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 1:06 PM
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• belltown

  

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  Wow! Would be totally amazing

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 1:50 PM
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• Mike

  

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  Very, very cool. I love when captains of industry actually step forward and take risks.

  It's a pretty darn interesting time to be involved in all crypto-stuff. That's really all this keeps boiling down to.

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM
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• Fernandez

  

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  Didn't know this, cheers for pointing out.

  XCP has been my favourite since its inception, I love how the developers could gain only if the project was a success.

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 5:06 PM
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• shawn_j

  

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  @fernandez Didn't know this, cheers for pointing out.

  XCP has been my favourite since its inception, I love how the developers could gain only if the project was a success.

  It's also the 1st one to get up & running. Byrne may also do the same thing on etherium or some of the other 2.0 layers when theyre working. I say the more the better at this stage.

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 5:21 PM
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• furezasan

  

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  Tokens seem like the way to go!

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 5:33 PM
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• Rob

  

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  Does every feel as much as I do that Adam has really helped Counterparty's launch? Yes, they seem to have been the first to market with a fully functional product, which may have been all they needed. But Adam really recognized them early, and jumped on board full force with LTBc, Tatiana Coin, and CoinPowers.

  Or am I just seeing the world through LTB-colored glasses? I see a huge number of assets listed with Coinpowers, but all I've looked at have less than five asset holders (most have one). Are there any Counterparty assets that have seen more action than LTBc and TC?

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 6:53 PM
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• bcohen

  

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  @Rob history in the making...

  https://forums.counterparty.co/index.php/topic,53.msg225.html#msg225

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 8:11 PM
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• cyberclones

  

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  They had mentioned they were looking at doing that a couple months ago nice to see it is still going forward.

  Wonder what the SEC will have to say about it.

  Posted on July 30, 2014 at 8:16 PM
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• bcohen

  

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  The man who would undo Wall Street by offering Overstock.com 'crytposecurities'

  On December 2 last year, Adam Krellenstein wrote the first few lines of code for Counterparty,...

  http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2014/08/01/the-man-who-would-undo-wall-street-by-offering.html

  Posted on August 1, 2014 at 12:00 PM
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