Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment?

Re:Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment? by comboy on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:16PM (#20357426)

Sidechains allow you to migrate to a completely different system without losing the storage of value property.

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Re:Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment? by gerikson on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:28PM (#20357504)

Are there any live sidechains in production? I thought the team behind them moved on to the Lightning Network.

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Re:Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment? by grubles on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:53PM (#20357696)

Blockstream launched the Liquid Network sidechain fairly recently.[0] The features that distinguish it from the Bitcoin main chain are fast settlement times (1-minute blocks), confidential transactions (versus BTC's transparent txs), and the ability to issue unique assets such as tokenized fiat, crypto assets, and other pretty exciting digitized assets.

[0] https://blockstream.com/liquid/

Disclosure: I work at Blockstream.

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Re:Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment? by gerikson on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:43PM (#20358380)

Thanks, I’ve missed that development.

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