Richard Branson: Blockchain Could Produce 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....
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Virgin Group founder and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is a huge supporter of blockchain technology. While talking to the press on October 3, Branson said the tech could bring an “economic revolution” to many nations worldwide. Sir Richard Branson Praises Blockchain Land Registry. Bitcoin and blockchain technology is a keen interest for....
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....
South African fintech company ThisIsMe (TIM), which focuses on identity verification, has announced that it will be adding blockchain technology to boost its services and is expected to go live in 2017. More companies are turning their attention to bitcoin’s underlying distributed ledger, the blockchain, as they realize the potentials it can deliver. Only recently, the major Spanish energy company Endesa revealed that it is planning on opening a blockchain laboratory in a bid to boost development of blockchain-based solutions for the energy industry. It’s also being used in other areas....
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.