Richard Branson: Blockchain Is an ‘Economic Revolution’

Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder and billionaire entrepreneur, said yesterday at an event in London that the blockchain technology could create an ‘economic revolution’ to numerous countries worldwide. At the Virgin Disruptors Week in London, Branson took some time out to talk about the potential of blockchain and how it’s being used, reports CNBC. During his discussion, he focused on the partnership between economist Hernando de Soto, BitFury, the bitcoin mining company, and the Republic of Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry. They aim to trial a land titling distributed....

Richard Branson, long time supporter of Bitcoin and the multibillionaire founder of Virgin Group, recently acknowledged the importance of the Blockchain technology in today’s global economic revolution. At the Virgin Disruptors event in London, Branson further emphasized the impact of the Blockchain technology in data and identity management, citing land and property issues in countries like Egypt. Branson stated: “If you take somewhere like Egypt, 90 percent of people have got houses, they've got a garden, but they've got no piece of paper to show ownership of that ... And without....

Sir Richard Branson has been in the news quite a bit lately, for all of the wrong reasons. His Virgin Galactic company suffered a major setback in their quest to send common (rich) folks into space, when their Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo spacecraft crashed during testing in the Mojave Desert, killing one of the pilots. Never one to let free publicity go to waste, he seems to be quickly turning the page towards his viewpoints on Bitcoin. Sir Richard Branson is now making news for other reasons as he spoke extensively about Bitcoin recently in Australia. Branson is a known Bitcoin investor....

The long list of things that you can spend your Bitcoins on is growing every day. Today the news is from Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire of Virgin! fame. Richard Branson revealed that he has long been a holder of Bitcoin, and his company Virgin Galactic will now accept Bitcoin for commercial space flights in the future. Check out Coindesk's full story here. I just felt the need to point out to our good readers that services such as this are essential for Bitcoin to go "to the moon." I meant that both literally and figuratively. Have a cryptic day, mis amigos.

Sir Richard Branson, thebillionaire investing-mogul behind Virgin Airlines, Virgin Galactic and a slew of other companies, recently wrote a blog titled "Why I Invest In Startups" on the Virgin official website. It's no secret that Branson takes favor to Bitcoin as he's been very vocal in the past and stood alongside other investors in BitPay, providing the company with $30 million. In the blog, Branson plugs Bitcoin, PayPal and BitPay all in the same breath, saying: "Finance is another area where I see exciting opportunities. Indiegogo, a crowdfunding platform, allows entrepreneurs better....