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DAO Creation Learning Center To Be Launched in Russia

The development team of Airalab is launching a Learning Center in Russia. The main aims of this Center will be the researching of different types of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and finding the most viable of them.

Russia Considers Defining Bitcoin As a Foreign Currency

According to Alexei Moiseeev, Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister, the authorities are drafting a new law that would bring bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies under definition of foreign currency.

Russia’s Party of Growth Leader Says Blockchain Means Living without Lies

Boris Titov, the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights in Russia, insists his country should take advantages of the struggling economic situation in the country by becoming one of the leading nations in the blockchain space.

Ukrainian Government To Use the Blockchain Auction For Selling Its Assets

The news was announced during the online conference with Alexander Danilyuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, at “Blockchain Incredible Party” (aka BIP001) event that took place in Odessa.

BitFury Releases a Proposal on Micropayments Routing in Lightning Network

BitFury Group published a whitepaper describing Lightning Network’s protocol routing as applied to micropayments in Bitcoin network. The proposal is a hybrid routing algorithm incorporating two phases: proactive update of routing scheme, which stores network topology data; and subsequent active data collection if Lightning Network sends a request. “Flare will allow for huge scalability of […]

Bitcoin Core Activates CSV Soft Fork

Bitcoin Core developers have announced they activated CSV soft fork, which incluides BIP68, BIP113, and BIP112.

The Last Ticket to BIP001 to Be Sold via Decentralized Blockchain Auction

The last ticket to blockchain conference BIP001 to be held in the city of Odessa July 7 will be sold via blockchain platform eAuction. The platform has been developed for privatization of public property and other auctions. The auction will be powered by five trade platforms, including Distributed Lab, IDF Reforms Lab. In order to […]

Bank of Russia to Create a Blockchain Consortium

The Bank of Russia is in the process of creating its own blockchain consortium focused on complex research of the technology and the opportunities it may provide.

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