According to multiple sources close to Overstock, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a S-3 filing for online retailer Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) to issue new publicly traded shares of the company on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Overstock's t0 (tee-zero) platform has been working on bringing equity trades and settlement to the blockchain since it was first announced in April 2015. In July, Overstock sold the first cryptobond on the blockchain. As a proof of concept, FNY Managed Accounts agreed to buy the $5 million bond, with assurances in place in case the technology failed.
The t0 platform is built utilizing colored coin technology, which allows for fractions of bitcoin to be used to track ownership of many assets besides bitcoin. For example, a colored coin could be used as a token to prove that an individual owns shares of Overstock. This technology is built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain and is secured by the distributed public ledger.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @06:14AM
A prominent member of the community has decided that peasants do not need sound money, and has vowed to sabotage all attempts to increase the size of the block-chain: at least until such time as they have trouble moving "old" coins.
That said, there are legitimate concerns with raising the block limit. Bitcoin becomes harder to hide in the "noise" (via tor for example) the more popular it gets. Miners in China already have difficulty with available bandwidth to the west.