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Ok, this article pisses me off. Here's an excerpt:
Last week, using our new tokenization platform, we arranged a €100 million two-year digital bond for the European Investment Bank with two other banks, all based on a private blockchain. Typically, a bond sale like this takes about five days to settle. Ours settled in 60 seconds. By reducing settlement times, we are lowering costs for issuers, investors and regulators. Using blockchain, we can extend these benefits more broadly in fixed-income markets and across other asset classes
First of all, what the hell is a private blockchain? Why do you even need "blockchain" if it's private? Why not just use regular database technology?
The rest of the article is basically "Blockchain is great! But only if it's with us, Goldman Sachs, coz we're so experienced and trusted"
Yet they don't even understand the basic decentralization use-case of why people were attracted to "blockchain" in the first place.
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