State of Bitcoin Q3 2015: Banks Embrace Blockchain Amid Bitcoin Funding Slowdown
CoinDesk's latest State of Bitcoin and Blockchain report, sponsored by Coinalytics, summarizes the key trends, data and events from the third quarter of 2015. This article highlights a few of the 88 new slides found in the report. Blockchain captures the zeitgeist. The Q3 2015 report marks CoinDesk's eighth in the series and much has changed since we released the first State of Bitcoin in February 2014. Arguably the most significant change, which was highlighted in last quarter's report, has been the dramatic shift in focus from bitcoin's use as an alternative currency and store of value....
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Bitcoin evangelist, public speaker and community director of the Counterparty Foundation, Chris DeRose is also a journalist and software developer. In this special feature, he looks into the state of blockchain businesses during 2015 and looks forward to what the future holds. If one wanted to survey the state of private blockchains in 2015, it would be hard to find a better example than by simply watching the blockchain panel at this year's Innotribe conference. In front of a large group of finance professionals, "blockchain experts" and audience alike agreed that blockchains were the....