Bitcoin won 2015

What you need to read this week.

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Wow, what a year it has been for bitcoin and blockchain. After a gloomy 2014, bitcoin has performed well in 2015 overall, but uncertainty remains as block size looks set to remain a hot topic in 2016. Read more opinions on the year's events in our 'year in review' series. 

1. Nasdaq

Blockchain startup Chain has issued shares to a private investor using Nasdaq’s recently launched private markets blockchain solution, Linq.(CoinDesk)

2. Price: From Worst to First

After a year filled with its share of doom and gloom, the verdict is in: Bitcoin won 2015. (CoinDesk)

3. Boring Predictions for Blockchain in 2016

"Where 2015 was the year everyone talked about blockchain, 2016 is going to be the year everyone builds on it." (Preston J. Byrne, CoinDesk)

4. Visa Europe

Visa Europe highlighted the significance of bitcoin and the blockchain as part of a retrospective on the past year in payments this week, suggesting that traditional finance will soon adopt the technology. (Visa)

5. PwC

In this special feature, Jeremy Drane and Cathy Marsh outline their predictions for the year ahead in blockchain tech and outline the trends that will likely be key. (CoinDesk)

Blockchain Quote of the Year

Earlier this year, Blythe Masters told a rapt audience at Exponential Financejust how seriously finance professionals should take blockchain technology. 

“You should be taking this technology as seriously as you should have been taking the development of the Internet in the early 1990s,” - Blythe Masters.
(Bloomberg)

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