# Blue Star Capital Update on SatoshiPay

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/blue-star-capital-update-satoshipay/412731992
- Published: 2017-07-17T07:15:45+01:00
- Author: Giles Arbor

**Blue Star Capital plc** (LON:BLU), the investing company with a focus on new technologies,
has today announced that its investee company, SatoshiPay Ltd (“SatoshiPay”), a 
UK incorporated private nanopayment software and blockchain company in which Blue
Star owns approximately 19 per cent of the equity (expected to increase to 31 per
cent subject to completion of the further investment in SatoshiPay announced by 
the Company on 4 July 2017), has agreed a proof of concept project with the IOTA
Foundation to explore replacing Bitcoin with an alternative cryptocurrency, IOTA,
as SatoshiPay’s settlement network (“Project”).

Since its 2015 product launch SatoshiPay has relied on the Bitcoin network to settle
nanopayments. Initially Bitcoin transaction fees were negligible at below €0.01 
per transaction. Due to Bitcoin’s rising popularity in 2017, combined with stalling
scalability improvements, the network’s transaction limit is regularly reached, 
leading to congestion and an increase in fees to uneconomical levels. To sustain
and enhance SatoshiPay’s business model based on frequent low-value payments, SatoshiPay
is seeking to replace Bitcoin with a more suitable distributed ledger technology.

The IOTA network, with its token listed as 9th largest cryptocurrency on coinmarketcap.
com at a market cap of €450m, offers zero-fee transactions with no limit on the 
number of transactions per second, making it unique among cryptocurrencies and an
ideal ledger technology for SatoshiPay’s future needs.

While corporate entities such as Innogy, Canonical, Bosch, Cisco and Microsoft are
building IOTA prototypes focussed on the Internet of things, SatoshiPay is IOTA 
Foundation’s first partner to build a purely web-based application.

The results of the project are expected to be available in August 2017.

> **Tony Fabrizi, CEO of Blue Star Capital Plc said:** “Working with the IOTA Foundation
> allows SatoshiPay to explore new technology with a clear focus on scalability 
> of its business. We are excited about the potential new opportunities that could
> open up from this initiative and that SatoshiPay is taking steps to optimise its
> business model.”
> **SatoshiPay CEO Meinhard Benn said:** “Working with the IOTA Foundation allows
> us to explore cutting edge technology with a clear focus on scalability and mass
> market roll-out. We couldn’t be more excited and expect plenty of exposure and
> new opportunities to open up.”

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