Overstock Begins Trading Its Shares Via the Bitcoin Blockchain
Overstock Begins Trading Its Shares Via the Bitcoin Blockchain
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 22, 20166m 32s
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Online retailer Overstock.com has became the first publicly traded company to issue stock over the internet, distributing more than 126,000 company shares via technology based on the bitcoin blockchain. Through a subsidiary called tØ, the Salt Lake City-based Overstock has spent the past two years building the technology that facilitates this new way of trading financial securities.
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