Blockchain Worldwide Share Discussion Threads

[moneymunch] 22/5/2018 21:15

 While the true potential of blockchain has yet to be fully explored or exploited, the time is fast approaching. Before we know it, this simple, yet crucial, technological advance will change the game for good.’

[moneymunch] 22/5/2018 20:59

Microsoft investing heavily in blockchain, far beyond bitcoin

Stefano Tempesta, regional director for Microsoft in Switzerland, spoke to IGTV’s Victoria Scholar at the Global Blockchain Innovation Summit in London about how Microsoft is investing in blockchain.

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Victoria Scholar g+ ;@VictoriaS_IG
Market Analyst, London

Tuesday 22 May 2018 12:30

Microsoft's investment surge in blockchain

The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies and the hysteria around bitcoin has drawn attention to the technology that underpins it: blockchain. Beyond this, however, most people know little more about the new distributed ledger technology. According to Research and Markets, the global blockchain market is set to grow to just over $8.68 billion by the end of 2024, from $212.12 million in 2016. This month, IG attended the Global Blockchain Innovation Summit in London to learn more about blockchain. Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Dell EMC, Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon and ;IBM were among the major companies to send delegates. The event’s organiser, Corporate Parity, says:

‘The next great disruptor, blockchain, is seemingly here to stay. Not only is it here to stay, but it is set to dramatically alter our lives in the very near future. Likened to the advent of the internet itself, blockchain technology has the power to transform how we do everyday tasks, reinventing economics and the exchange of information as it does so.

From healthcare and government to insurance and retail, blockchain will directly impact industry, affecting both customer and supplier. While the true potential of blockchain has yet to be fully explored or exploited, the time is fast approaching. Before we know it, this simple, yet crucial, technological advance will change the game for good.’

Microsoft is among the pioneers in the blockchain space. This month, the technology giant launched a new product, the Azure Blockchain Workbench, which is a new developer tool created to make it easier to build blockchain applications. Nestlé and 3M are among the notable companies using Blockchain Workbench so far. Microsoft says it helps businesses to get up and running quickly, build applications in days, not months, and easily integrate blockchain workflows with existing systems. Stefano Tempesta, regional director for Microsoft in Switzerland, says blockchain is a significant space to watch and he sees its application going far beyond cryptocurrencies.

[moneymunch] 22/5/2018 19:18

Very tightly held indeed, only 36.5m shares with 19.6m held by major investors according to Stapleton's prospectus, and Barnard Nominees reduced their holding by 1.2m early February, and so 50% near enough held by major investors and institutions, and the majority of the rest held tightly by savvy pi's and the Smart Money, those that know a good thing when they see it. Gl ;-)

[still waiting] 22/5/2018 16:24

watching closely as very tightly held..

[moneymunch] 22/5/2018 16:22

We're now 6 months in since the change of strategy, ample time for any due diligence on any potential game changing Blockchain RTO target, and so news could drop at anytime....and a sudden and significant re-rate in anticipation very likely, and with so many likely parties involved in a successful RTO, watch out for a surge in buying pre-announcement, as they might find this one hard to keep under wraps....Gla holders...a potential game changer and stellar upside ahead...On and Up!!! ;-)

[moneymunch] 20/5/2018 09:11

and maybe Bloc's target RTO amongst the following??? gla ;-)

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[moneymunch] 19/5/2018 08:21

Over 3 months gone since a number of deals were being considered.....News could drop at anytime.....Tick Tock Boom!!! Gla Blockheads ;-)

5/2/18

A number of deals are being considered, Sargent says, though nothing is imminent.

Something by the end of this calendar year is as much as he will give away, though the size of any potential deal is now much larger than the £3-4mln mentioned in last year’s prospectus.

8/5/18

We continue to make good progress towards a potentially game changing deal within the blockchain space and will update the market as soon as we are able."

[moneymunch] 19/5/2018 07:45

ps and it's the first time i've seen the article in full, essentially a transcript from the video interview with Rodger, but slightly more informative in print imho. Gl ;-)

[still waiting] 19/5/2018 07:41

Once we get news of rto target we'll be able to do a lot more research.

[moneymunch] 19/5/2018 07:26

Lol , pay attention trigger, the Proactive Investor article is over 3 months old, and a timely reminder for those invested and a timely insight for those considering investing imho!!!. Gl ;-)

[moneymunch] 19/5/2018 07:11

Blockchain Worldwide readies itself for the ‘new internet’ with name change

15:09 05 Feb 2018

Blockchain Worldwide has changed its name and chief executive Rodger Sargent says the switch is all about the potential for the electronic ledger technology,

A change of name and business focus does not normally occur just three months after a company lists.

But Blockchain Worldwide PLC (LON:BLOC) has done just that and chief executive Rodger Sargent says the switch is all about the potential for the electronic ledger technology, blockchain.

In short, blockchain is the most exciting opportunity that has arisen since the internet, he told Proactive Investors.

Shell specialist

Sargent is someone who in old money would have been called a shellmeister.

His modus operandi, as he calls it, is to find technology business with good management teams, raise money and reverse them into companies that have little more than a listing.

Broadband supplier Satellite Services WorldWide Group PLC (LON:SSAT) , podcast specialist Audioboom Group PLC (LON:BOOM) and streaming group Meloday VR owner EVR Holdings PLC (LON:EVRH) are all companies floated in this way by Sargent and his team.

Stapleton Capital was latest cab off the rank when it joined the standard list of the main market last October.

Huge deal flow

Watch: Blockchain Worldwide looking to build 'proper companies on proper blockchain tech'

The original aim was to engineer a reverse takeover of a telecoms-based business, but Sargent says the change of focus and name to Blockchain Worldwide was almost Hobson’s Choice.

“There was such a huge deal flow in blockchain technology, it was too good to turn down,” he says.

Sargent believes there are very few industries or applications that blockchain does not have the capability to transform.

“One you put everything on the block you can disintermediate everyone who takes money out of the system.”

In medicine for example, patient booking, medical records, drug dispensing and so on, all can be put on the blockchain.

Estate agents, too, face major disruption as all house and survey information will be freely available on the block.

Sargent, though, seems especially keen to see how blockchain changes the way shares and other assets are traded.

Listing any company costs a fortune, he says, but the blockchain has the potential to eliminate that.

A number of deals are being considered, Sargent says, though nothing is imminent.

Something by the end of this calendar year is as much as he will give away, though the size of any potential deal is now much larger than the £3-4mln mentioned in last year’s prospectus.

Sargent seems happy to bide his time. The company raised £1.5mln when it floated last September and with minimal overheads there is no rush, he says.

“The end game is that there will be dozens of companies looking to use blockchain.

“Some will have the wrong management, some the wrong tech, some not enough money and some too much funding.

Biding its time

“We can sit there and hopefully pick the rights ones and consolidate the corpses.”

This will be across more than one industry and may involve more than deal, but it all essentially comes back to eliminating the middleman.

Through consolidation and roll-ups, Sargent sees scope to create the definitive blockchain stock exchange, a gaming company, a medical company or even a car dealer.

“Any information that can coded and digitised can be put on a block.”

The distributed ledger can disintermediate everyone,” he repeats.

“The internet created some of the greatest companies we’ve seen and blockchain is another similar opportunity.”

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[moneymunch] 19/5/2018 06:47

Forbes

"Blockchain is one of the most misunderstood technologies in the history of mankind," Pulver said. "At its core is something many of us will never understand."

That much is clear. Shake a stick on LinkedIn and you'll find 500 "blockchain experts" that have never mined a genesis block or built a blockchain-enabled solution to a real-life problem. And most of us are not technical, not developers, and unaware of the details of the technology we use every day.

But why is blockchain a $4 quadrillion opportunity?

(That's $4,000,000,000,000,000, fully written out, by the way.)

"We're seeing an evolution of capital markets," Pulver told me after the session. "Blockchain is enabling a new type of asset classes ... for the first time we can create programmable securities for traditional public companies as well as private companies."

"Securities" are investor-speak for investments that are traded on a secondary market -- in other words, one available beyond the original private owners of an asset. Stocks and bonds are well-known examples.

In essence, what Pulver is saying is that blockchain enables -- and perhaps, over time, even compells -- a new way of recognizing, managing, and trading the massive value implicit in both public companies and private companies.

Globally, that is worth $4 quadrillion dollars. Putting it on the blockchain makes it theoretically possible to trade it programmatically, perhaps via smart contracts.

[moneymunch] 19/5/2018 06:20

On May 8, 2018 it was reported that the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy had created a unit tasked with researching the further development of blockchain across technology.

This could represent a major step forward for the adoption and application of blockchain technology as governments are not only taking the new technology seriously with their regulatory work on the cryptocurrency side of things, but now they are actively looking into the benefits of the technology.

Blockchain technology is now on the cusp of a new wave of adoption that is running concurrently, but separately from cryptocurrencies.

The banks are looking as to how blockchain can aid their advancement, racing to be the first-to-market in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Major corporations ar also following suit with their own blockchain products as their own race rages with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle all trying to outdo one another.

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Another avenue of adoption

Considering that Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and even blockchain technology were being scoffed at no more than a year ago as ‘rat poison’, and ‘pixie-dust’, the way in which it is being viewed a few months down the line is a staggering turnaround.

Banks, once seen as Bitcoin’s biggest enemy, are now hiring blockchain experts by the dozens; corporations that have always traditionally been at the top of their game are now looking to breakdown and decentralize because they know that is where the next wave of industry will be.

Now it is governments who are legitimizing the power of blockchain as their best and brightest explore this latest technology, and implement its uses to make society more efficient, streamlined, and advanced.

[moneymunch] 18/5/2018 12:38

Lol DD, who's lying??? :-)

[double double] 18/5/2018 12:10

Oh dear.. the lying rampers are wrong again and again ....

[moneymunch] 18/5/2018 07:53

Lol football, surely more than once!!!??? gl ;-)

[football] 18/5/2018 07:48

moneymunch yep your 101% right for once




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[moneymunch] 18/5/2018 06:35

A Blue day on the cards imho..Gla :-)

[from8to800] 17/5/2018 17:06

Yeah, this has formed a nice Lil bullish flag. Let's wait and see.

[moneymunch] 17/5/2018 16:34

Perfectly Poised....Gla Blockheads!!! ;-)

[still waiting] 17/5/2018 16:01

Always a good sign when they drop the bid after a buy.

#notfoolinganyone

[from8to800] 17/5/2018 15:54

Big 117k buy just gone in at 8.7p