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ABN Amro’s Innovation Director Rejects Bitcoin over “Poor Image”

Yashu Gola
Yashu Gola
4 years ago
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Arjan Van Os. ABN Amro's Innovation Director Rejects Bitcoin. newsbtc bitcoin news

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The director of the ABN Amro’s Innovation Centre is apparently not a fan of Bitcoin, a decentralized payment system.

According to a report, chief Arjan Van Os exemplified Bitcoin’s previous track record to prove his point, saying that their bank does not want to associate itself with anything that has/had a role in financing illicit activities. Instead, the bank wishes to experiment with its underlying technology — the blockchain.

“We want to prevent bitcoin’s poor image reflecting on what we do with the blockchain, it’s underlying technology,” Van Os stated. “We see many opportunities [in the blockchain]. Bitcoin itself is outmoded.”

His comments comes almost over a month after a journal he published on ABN Amro’s official blog. Titled “The Next Best Thing”, the bulletin tried to explain the concept of blockchain, and how it can be associated within the traditional banking infrastructure to make it more speedy and secure. He wrote:

“Block Chain Technology already exists. It is being experimented and tested. However, the degree to which it is applied is still limited […] This is the time when we need to gather as much information as possible [regarding the blockchain]. We should try all possibilities and should form networks of financial institutions, FinTech companies, start-ups and software experts.”

The journal never mentioned the word “Bitcoin”.

Blockchain Outplaying Bitcoin

By the time it is proved that a blockchain is an independent public ledger that can entertain assets other than Bitcoin, the venture capitalists and a majority of the financial institutions are choosing to invest more in the former. Some blame Bitcoin’s constantly declining value as one of the major factors why investments are more emphasized on blockchain these days.

Nonetheless, Bitcoin is still gaining traction in the cross border remittance industry.

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Yashu Gola is a Mumbai-based finance journalist. He is profoundly active in the bitcoin space since 2014 – and has contributed to several cryptocurrency media outlets, including NewsBTC, FxDailyReport, Bitcoinist, and CCN.

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Academically, Yashu holds a bachelor's in information technology, with majors in data structures and C++ programming language. He has also won the 'Atulya Award' for his efforts towards raising $100,000 for an India-based farming project.

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  1. F7hfdf3 says:
    10 years ago

    Bullshit. They want to use something they can control and inflate.

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  2. Hennessy Hemp says:
    10 years ago

    Blockchain without bitcoin is like railway tracks without trains operating on them. Using the underlying blockchain technology is a lot like adding train cars (that rely on an engine pulling them), and in this case the engine is Bitcoin.

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    • DougNJ says:
      10 years ago

      In a few more block reward cuts that ‘engine’ will not have much horse power to pull that train with its ever larger blockchain. As it is now in less than 300 days the reward will drop 12.5 BTC. Most blocks will need sender fees to be 100 to 300 times larger than current amounts to make up the difference. Basically any miner not making 100% profit before block 420k will become a charity until half the miners drop out.
      When the reward is 1.56 BTC who will mine?

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  1. F7hfdf3 says:
    10 years ago

    Bullshit. They want to use something they can control and inflate.

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  2. Hennessy Hemp says:
    10 years ago

    Blockchain without bitcoin is like railway tracks without trains operating on them. Using the underlying blockchain technology is a lot like adding train cars (that rely on an engine pulling them), and in this case the engine is Bitcoin.

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    • DougNJ says:
      10 years ago

      In a few more block reward cuts that ‘engine’ will not have much horse power to pull that train with its ever larger blockchain. As it is now in less than 300 days the reward will drop 12.5 BTC. Most blocks will need sender fees to be 100 to 300 times larger than current amounts to make up the difference. Basically any miner not making 100% profit before block 420k will become a charity until half the miners drop out.
      When the reward is 1.56 BTC who will mine?

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