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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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

SatoshiPay London Launch- WRITE UP/SUMMARY

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7jj4al/satoshipay_london_launch_write_upsummary/

Happy New Year to all BLU holders let’s have a good 2018.

Boasting “Stellar” Returns in 2018, The “Ripple Killer” May Be Here

https://www.profitconfidential.com/cryptocurrency/stellar-lumens/xlm-lumens-2018-ripple-killer/

interesting day ahead tomorrow..................

The chart is indicating a lift up tomorrow we shall see.

Share Spot speaks to Tony Fabrizi CEO of Blue star capital Plc #BLU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-UzW68csY&feature=youtu.be

£48k buy at .43 looking very cheap at this price.

Ummm you said it was on the rise 7 days ago.......

bounce overdue plus fantastic news https://dashboard.stellar.org/

Haven't got a clue what is going on but it certainly looks busy and interesting Driver!😃

Kim the sp isn’t busy going up, we will just have to hold on. Stella is doing very well though it has moved up in the charts.

Stellar Price Prediction 2018: Consider XLM, the Possible “Ripple Killer”

https://www.profitconfidential.com/cryptocurrency/stellar-lumens/xlm-price-prediction-2018-ripple-killer/

Final Results for the year ended 30 September 2017
Blue Star Capital plc (AIM: BLU) is pleased to announce its final results for the year ended 30 September 2017.

Highlights:
· Net assets of £3,513,262 (2016: £1,757,165)

· Loss for the period of £188,713 (2016: loss of £165,005)

· Acquired a 31% shareholding in SatoshiPay Ltd, a blockchain business focused on nanopayments

· Cash position at 30 September 2017 of £37,970 (2016: 51,184)

· The Company raised £500,000 before expenses through a further issue of equity shortly after the year end

The Annual Report and notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM") will be posted to shareholders shortly and will be available to view on the Company's website http://www.bluestarcapital.co.uk.

The AGM will be held at the offices of Cairn Financial Advisers LLP, Cheyne House, Crown Court, 62-63 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6AX on 26 March 2018 at 12.00 p.m.

Tony Fabrizi Chief Executive Officer of Blue Star Capital plc, commented:

"The last year has seen the Company make considerable progress with the acquisition of a sizeable shareholding in SatoshiPay. The Board is confident that SatoshiPay has the potential to deliver significant value for Blue Star shareholders and it looks forward to working with SatoshiPay's management in unlocking that value."

Update on SatoshiPay
Blue Star Capital plc (AIM: BLU), the investing company with a focus on technology and its applications within media and gaming, notes an update made on 4 April 2018 by its investee company, SatoshiPay Ltd ("SatoshiPay").

On the 13 November 2017, it was announced that the Stellar Development Foundation ("SDF") had pledged to credit the first 100,000 users creating a wallet through SatoshiPay with 500 lumens each (XLM). Due to the feedback SatoshiPay has received from various publishers and partners, coupled with the price fluctuations of XLM, it has now been agreed with the SDF that the giveaway be amended from 500 XLM distributed to 100,000 users, to 50 XLM distributed to 1,000,000 users.

In order to maximise the impact of the giveaway, the decision has been made to roll out the programme in incremental stages, called "waves". Wave 1 which commenced on 4 April 2018 at 4:44pm CET, will result in 50 XLM being granted to a total of 4,444 users on a first come first served basis, representing a total of 222,200 XLM. SatoshiPay believe that this issuance of XLM will help kick-start the SatoshiPay ecosystem. The XLM granted can be used on any SatoshiPay enabled website.

Additionally, the Company notes that SatoshiPay now aims to implement use of a Euro-pegged token (EURT token) for top-ups, pricing and payments in order to mitigate the impact of XLM price volatility. Once completed, SatoshiPay believes it will be the first company to use a stable blockchain token in a consumer product.

Finally, the Company is also pleased to learn that SatoshiPay is working on extending its API and preparing software development kits for mobile app developers, making it possible for third party developers to build on top of SatoshiPay's payment infrastructure.

The Company sees this first wave as an important milestone for its investee company, and believes it will assist in both growing the user base and raising the profile of SatoshiPay.

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SatoshiPay in crypto payment trial with The Register http://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/satoshipay-in-crypto-partnership-with-the-register … via @BClouduk

Investment update on Sthaler
Blue Star is pleased to announce that one of its investee companies Sthaler Limited ("Sthaler") has successfully raised GBP2 million at a pre-new money valuation of GBP30 million. This represents a significant uplift to the value attributed to Sthaler of GBP23million at its previous fundraise of GBP3 million in July 2017.

Blue Star invested GBP50,000 into Sthaler in June 2015 as part of a total raise by Sthaler of GBP450,000 with a post money valuation at that time of GBP3.4 million. This latest round of investment in Sthaler values the Company's stake of 0.9 per cent. at GBP300,000.

Sthaler is 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. Sthaler jointly developed Fingopay in conjunction with Hitachi, using VeinID technology. Infrared light maps the unique vein pattern in a customer's finger. This biometric signature is matched to a template held in the cloud and verifies the payment in seconds. It is considered more secure than other biometrics such as fingerprint.

Over the last 18 months, Sthaler has been piloting Fingopay. Now thousands of students at Copenhagen Business School can use Fingopay in their campus canteen. This world first at a self-service kiosk is an excellent example of how the technology can be used. Sthaler worked with Denmark's national debit card operators Nets / Dankort to deliver the technology.

Nick Slater building a sizeable holding here