Blue Star is an investing company with a focus on technology and its applications within media and gaming. Blue Star’s investments include a 31% holding in SatoshiPay, a nanopayment Web Tangle software company; a holding in Disruptive Tech Limited, an investing company with five investments including a 38% holding in VNU Group LLC ("VNU") a speciality online direct retailer of premium goods paid for through an instant credit facility and a holding in Nektan PL;and an investment in Sthaler, an early stage identity and payments technology business which enables a consumer to identify themselves and pay using just their finger at retail points of sale.

http://www.bluestarcapital.co.uk/


Satoshipay
https://satoshipay.io/

SatoshiPay | Gallery Suite | Master Investor Show 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8-Pe74kjI

Q&A with CEO Anthony Fabrizi: SatoshiPay Re-Investment
http://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/blue-star-capital-plc-qa-ceo-anthony-fabrizi-satoshipay-re-investment/412726992

SatoshiPay will be using Tangle software through IOTA (What is IOTA in a Nutshell)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwEp5cexTJE
IOTA
https://iota.org/
Blue Star Capital Plc SatoshiPay reverse would be great

https://vimeo.com/206378385

TEST SITE
https://satoshipay.tangle.works/
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Chris, we all had to start some where welcome..

SatoshiPay Launch Presentation in collaboration with TheBlockchainConnector
The Blockchain Connector
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (GMT)
London, United Kingdom

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/satoshipay-launch-presentation-in-collaboration-with-theblockchainconnector-tickets-41042520283

Indeed driver cheers, good luck for tomorrow.

Well done Chris I bought BLU in mid July @ 0.4070 ave price, let's hope we enjoy the ride.

Not in LION or MORSE but having a great time being in VRS which I think is going to do really well even beyond the meteoric rise we've seen.

Aye, fingers crossed George.

Time to hang on!

See also VELA & MSG

Just closed MSG for a small profit, I have my eye on VELA Driver!

Kim
Well done on MSG Im holding that one it could go anywhere..

Thanks Driver. Early days for the revamped MSG but it has the potential to do well.

time to buy more imo................................


By John Gabriel, Cryptonews (Oracle Times)

December 7, 2017

If the stock market was the perfect arbiter of value, then anomalies such as Blue Star Capital (LON:BLU) just wouldn’t occur.

The reality is, the stock market is often wrong, and sometimes very wrong. The reasons can be many. But human psychology and poorly informed participants are often the causes.

This is not always a bad thing as it creates substantial opportunities for the savvy investor – who rushes in to snap up decent companies that are grossly mispriced (when the company’s share price does not match the value of the underlying business…) by the market.

And right now, there exists a disruptive tech investment company that is grossly mispriced on AIM; Blue Star Capital.

At 0.65p, London-listed company is worth £12.2million. By any measure, this is stunningly cheap when you look at the company’s asset portfolio.

The jewel in Blue Star’s crown has to be its 31% stake in the privately held SatoshiPay Ltd, a nanopayment software and blockchain company which is adapting Lumens, Stellar Lumens (XLM) native cryptocurrency, as the underlying cryptocurrency for their settlement scheme.

SatoshiPay had been using Bitcoin since they launched in 2015, and when Bitcoin’s fees used to be negligible. Not anymore. Bitcoin’s transaction costs are just too high (at $8.2…) and the technology is outdated, whilst Lumens’ transaction costs sits pretty at $0.0000002 with a nifty tech platform. In addition, Bitcoin’s scaling problems have also made it unsuitable as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system for everyday transactions.

Lumens, on the other hand, is streaks ahead of the cryptocurrency pack:

• In May 2017, XLM invaded the top 10 cryptocurrencies with a 131% increase in value.

• In June 2017, Stellar opened up another 16 billion new XLM on the market as part of its second distribution in addition to the 9.5 billion that already existed.

• In September 2017, an email alert by the well-respected cryptocurrency newsletter group, Palm Beach Confidential, provided an unprecedented bullish signal on XLM. That subsequently triggered huge buying volume from cryptocurrency whales.

• On October 16 2017, IBM announced that it had established a partnership with Stellar to facilitate a revolutionary payments process. The news was so significant that it pushed XLM’s price up 100%+ in a single day. Already in use across 12 currency corridors among several Pacific Island nations and Australia, NZ and the UK, the intention is for further expansion in Q1-Q2 2018. Stellar’s technology is not only impro

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FLYING UNDER THE RADAR OF BLOCKCHAIN VALUE INVESTORS

By John Gabriel, Cryptonews (Oracle Times)

December 7, 2017

If the stock market was the perfect arbiter of value, then anomalies such as Blue Star Capital (LON:BLU) just wouldn’t occur.

The reality is, the stock market is often wrong, and sometimes very wrong. The reasons can be many. But human psychology and poorly informed participants are often the causes.

This is not always a bad thing as it creates substantial opportunities for the savvy investor – who rushes in to snap up decent companies that are grossly mispriced (when the company’s share price does not match the value of the underlying business…) by the market.

And right now, there exists a disruptive tech investment company that is grossly mispriced on AIM; Blue Star Capital.

At 0.65p, London-listed company is worth £12.2million. By any measure, this is stunningly cheap when you look at the company’s asset portfolio.

The jewel in Blue Star’s crown has to be its 31% stake in the privately held SatoshiPay Ltd, a nanopayment software and blockchain company which is adapting Lumens, Stellar Lumens (XLM) native cryptocurrency, as the underlying cryptocurrency for their settlement scheme.

SatoshiPay had been using Bitcoin since they launched in 2015, and when Bitcoin’s fees used to be negligible. Not anymore. Bitcoin’s transaction costs are just too high (at $8.2…) and the technology is outdated, whilst Lumens’ transaction costs sits pretty at $0.0000002 with a nifty tech platform. In addition, Bitcoin’s scaling problems have also made it unsuitable as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system for everyday transactions.

Lumens, on the other hand, is streaks ahead of the cryptocurrency pack:

• In May 2017, XLM invaded the top 10 cryptocurrencies with a 131% increase in value.

• In June 2017, Stellar opened up another 16 billion new XLM on the market as part of its second distribution in addition to the 9.5 billion that already existed.

• In September 2017, an email alert by the well-respected cryptocurrency newsletter group, Palm Beach Confidential, provided an unprecedented bullish signal on XLM. That subsequently triggered huge buying volume from cryptocurrency whales.

• On October 16 2017, IBM announced that it had established a partnership with Stellar to facilitate a revolutionary payments process. The news was so significant that it pushed XLM’s price up 100%+ in a single day. Already in use across 12 currency corridors among several Pacific Island nations and Australia, NZ and the UK, the intention is for further expansion in Q1-Q2 2018. Stellar’s technology is not only improving existing payment solutions in developed countries but also opening up unbanked regions to the global financial system. Real-time payment will soon be facilitated in over 110 countries with central bank involvement.

On November 11 2017, SatoshiPay announced its partnership with Stellar citing its reasons for abandoning Bitcoin. The latter was no longer viable for everyday transactions due to scalability and minimum amounts, with transaction fees being exorbitantly high. Significantly, Bitcoin was abandoned, and Stellar Lumens was chosen as its replacement out of a whole host of possible cryptocurrencies.

• On November 28 2017, Stellar Lumens made history by joining the $1 billion market cap club, which only a select number of cryptocurrencies have done.

• On November 29 2017, Stellar Lumens reached $0.10 for the first time – a significant psychological trading level that paves the way for growth to expand beyond $0.01 increments to $0.10 increments.

• On December 1 2017, it was announced that IBM added 8 new validators (i.e. Stellar anchors) in 8 different countries to the Stellar network – Australia, Brazil, Canada, Norway, Italy, Hong Kong, India, United Kingdom.

Put simply, the growth trajectory of Stellar has been impressive to date and in our opinion, hasn’t received as much attention as it truly deserves as a sensible blockchain solution that is widely accessible and inoffensive to present-day banking practices unlike Bitcoin. On this point, it is severely undervalued. Cryptocurrency whales know this and they are stocking up fast every day.

And because of this, SatoshiPay’s value and attractiveness (as the only bona fide nanopayments platform in the world) to consumers and commercial institutions is set to go stratospheric.

In fact, only yesterday, Dan Strumpf of the Wall Street Journal was reported as positioning SatoshiPay’s founders Meinhard Benn, Henning Peters, and Kilian Thalhammer as the first European blockchain tycoons, and as the value of the company is set to explode in 2018 with rumours of a NASDAQ listing in Q2 2018.

And to give you an idea of the company’s undervaluation, Strumpf placed a tentative valuation of SatoshiPay at circa $193m just on the Lumens adoption alone. “The potential of the platform, thereafter,” he barked, “is utterly obscene; possibly running into the $500m threshold on first material revenues.”

Thus, the point is very simple. If we ignore everything else about Blue Star and just look at its SatoshiPay holding, this company is fundamentally undervalued on a grand scale. BUY.

deltazero
Cheers for the post was just going to paste that in..
Well if all goes to plan with that article we will all be sitting on the beach..


And to give you an idea of the company’s undervaluation, Strumpf placed a tentative valuation of SatoshiPay at circa $193m just on the Lumens adoption alone. “The potential of the platform, thereafter,” he barked, “is utterly obscene; possibly running into the $500m threshold on first material revenues.”

cheers driver and you are welcome - I still believe the upside here is under estimated and will end in double digit pence in the not too distant - short term several bags from current level imo
atb

SatoshiPay now launched (SatoshiPay Twitter feed)


https://twitter.com/SatoshiPay?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Looks like the real launch is next week and the free first 100k users being given 50 Lummers is Jan 2018.

SatoshiPay Launch Presentation in collaboration with TheBlockchainConnector
The Blockchain Connector
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (GMT)
London, United Kingdom

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/satoshipay-launch-presentation-in-collaboration-with-theblockchainconnector-tickets-41042520283

Improved service and offerings and partnerships
hxxps://medium.com/@SatoshiPay/satoshipay-launches-stellar-integration-and-six-new-partnerships-1ce6c74059b6

SatoshiPay launches Stellar integration and six new partnerships
After months of hard work we are glad to announce that we are live with a massively updated product. We switched from Bitcoin to Stellar, partnered with TEMPO for fiat payouts, won IBTimes and other content partners, and… finally accept credit cards through TransactWorld!
Stellar for the win
Completed only a month after announcing our partnership with Stellar.org, our integration with the Stellar network is now live. You can try it out at any of our content partners’ websites – for example Naftali Music or BTC Echo. Simply open our widget (it’s now blue by the way) in the bottom right of the page, select “Top Up” and add credit using PayPal or directly from your Stellar wallet. Your lumens will arrive to your browser within seconds and you can pay for content straight away.

SatoshiPay on Stellar in action: from consumer to publisher in 5 seconds
In the past we used payment channels, which are simple smart contracts that lock funds for a period of time to save transaction fees and gain speed. Because of Stellar’s unique properties of negligible transaction fees of €0.000001 and settlement times of 5s in average, we no longer need payment channels and each payment arrives at the publisher’s wallet straight away – true peer-to-peer payments.
We also found a way to emulate unconfirmed transactions on Stellar, which allows for content to be loaded milliseconds after clicking “Pay” instead of 5 seconds later when the payment is confirmed by the network. This is a crucial gain of speed in user experience and we plan to submit our approach as a Stellar protocol improvement.
WordPress plugin update
Our WordPress plugin is an easy way for publishers to try out our technology, and it represents the reference implementation for our Goods API. Due to the switch to Stellar, a couple of things changed in our API, so we have updated our plugin and v0.9 is now available for download at WordPress. Make sure to upgrade to be able to set content prices in lumen. The update will also convert existing satoshi prices into lumen prices.
TEMPO Money Transfer as Euro gateway
Most of our future publishers won’t know or fully understand cryptocurrencies, and they shouldn’t have to. This is why we partnered with TEMPO, a French money transfer company with a banking license, to allow publishers to be paid out via bank transfer.
TEMPO also issues a Euro token called EURT on the Stellar network. It allows to transfer asset tokens that will always be pegged to the Euro, and not fluctuate due to cryptocurrency exchange rates. We are currently exploring how we can us

Blue Star Capital plc Update on SatoshiPay

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=5775882

Excellent feedback curtesy of Hitsha1 vie LSE from last nights launch.

So I will be honest I invested in Blu on a hunch without knowing too much about SatoshiPay. Learnt a lot from the presentation so have done a quick summary for those who couldn’t make it: Overall concept – make it easier to spend small amounts of money & help remove some of the payment walls/barriers. Particularly will be fruitful with entities that have to push monthly subscriptions for access to their content/sites & lose out on customers. They can unbundle the content (e.g. even down to a paragraph) to increase content sharing but due to low margins/transaction fees can be unprofitable. Frictionless nano-payments can use to make payments for 1c or even less. It isn’t a new thing i.e. we do this with our phone bills etc (pay per usage). But this will be over the internet and due to efficiency will lower transaction fees. Fee will be flat 10% per transaction to clients. Works via plug-in so no need to download anything. & prices are tagged at HTTP level. Wallet balance (where lumens are kept) don’t expire and there will be a transaction history. Dashboard functionality available to publishers showing stats on how much people have spent on their site. Currently have 1200 publisher sign-ups and 70k customer wallets. Why blockchain? - Speed in development (beta was developed in 6 months) - Bank grade security - Security tested by hackers - Stability – no downtimes - Don’t need to trust one central party - Not regulated? Re-launch - Stellar Integration & 6 new partners - Can now send 1c over the internet - Transactions done in 5 seconds (quicker than bitcoin) - Scalable – can do > 1000 transactions / sec (& can get higher than this) - Stellar marketing grant 6m euros – where first 100k users that sign up will get 60 euros each. & if successful they may end up extending this. New Content Partners (mainly trials I think) - International Business Times - Golem.de - Couple of youtube creators - Naftali – who is currently too small for itunes - One of the FT start-ups was there and said he was interested in using them…. Partnered also with Transact World UK / Credit Cards. Future - Ability to take out the volatility of cryptocurrency by fixing x lumen to 1c - Sites being able to pay vistors (e.g. for doing a survey) - Allow websites to buy data from users - Integrating payment systems into apps/games (can’t remember if they already do this) - Adding voting buttons where users / buyers of content can vote up/down to control the quality (they would get some lumens back for doing this regardless of how they vote). - 2018 projections were touched upon – 1.8m transactions by end of 2018 but again they did caveat they need live data (over next few months) for projections. Small discussion around consumers being confident around spending money so easily & quickl