Patrick Byrne: ‘Medici Will Be a National Market System Compliant and Able to Trade Everything’
Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock, speaks with CoinTelegraph about the company’s new projects, including Medici and whether it will work with the Counterparty platform, how Wall Street and regulators are receiving the project, and how the old system has allowed financial predators to roam free. CoinTelegraph: We can start with your new project, Medici. How have Wall Street traders and executives reacted regarding your plans to build a crypto-security application? Has it been positive or negative overall? “You do not replace cancer. You instead cut out the tumor.” Patrick Byrne: Well, first....
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E-commerce giant Overstock.com has become the first company to offer qualified buyers the option of purchasing corporate bonds that will trade using Bitcoin's blockchain protocol. In a speech last year at Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne announced a special partnership with Counterparty that led to the creation of a project known as Medici. The Medici project was designed to create a decentralized stock exchange within the Counterparty platform. Thus, the Medici project itself is based on blockchain technology. The bonds will be sold privately and will sell for a....
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne is a vocal Bitcoin proponent, even launching his own startup T0 to disrupt Wall Street. In a recent interview, Byrne discussed both Bitcoin and blockchain’s unique advantages. Patrick Byrne is a well known influential person within the bitcoin world, since his company Overstock.com was one of the first companies to accept....
In a keynote address at Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne announced a partnership with Counterparty on a project code-named Medici, a front-end and portal to the decentralized stock exchange of the Counterparty platform. The shared goal is to build a cutting-edge stock market on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, and help Bitcoin do for Wall Street what it has already begun to do for payments. The blockchain has proved very well suited to the exchange of digital currency. But what about exchanging shares of public companies? Patrick Byrne, a longtime critic of Wall....
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne said previously he had some interesting announcements to share when it comes to bitcoin and his company, and today, Byrne certainly did make an announcement at a bitcoin conference in Las Vegas. The news? Overstock.com has hired two CounterParty developers to code up put together an decentralized stock exchange of sorts that will allow companies - including Overstock - to issue financial securities securely over the web, atop the CounterParty platform (which works over the bitcoin block chain). In essence, bypassing today's centralized stock exchanges. The....
One week after the SEC approved Overstock's plan to issue stock via the Bitcoin blockchain, company CEO Patrick Byrne gave the keynote address - called "The Virtues of Crypto-Settlement" - at the Inside Bitcoins Conference in the San Diego Convention Center. Byrne, whose firm was bitcoin's first major retailer, spoke at length about his firm's plans, launched at the website, t0.com. He lamented the "crazy system" of Wall Street banks and said there is. "all kinds of room for mischief." That's why Byrne has developed an alternative. "This system is transparent and reduces costs we believe....