Overstock's new subdivisions going big on blockchain

SALT LAKE CITY — While 2017 may well be looked back on as the year bitcoin and its crypto-coin brethren became legit, it's also shown that a bet made in 2014 by Midvale-based Overstock.com on cryptocurrency and its underlying blockchain technology was both prescient and profitable.
Medici Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock, announced its lead position last week in a $2.2 million seed-funding round for mobile online voting platform Voatz (sounds like "votes") that's working to