Speaker at Bitcoin Conference Moscow Claims He Intends to Bring Vitalik Buterin to RussiaIn the course of Bitcoin Conference Moscow, currently occurring in Russia’s capital, one of speakers stated he intends to bring Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin to Moscow.
VP Of Major Russian Bank Predicts Blockchain Will Cause Banks to Disappear by 2026Vice President of Sberbank of Russia, the country’s biggest state-owned bank, Andrei Sharov believes banks may disappear by 2026 because of blockchain technology’s impact. “In ten years, I’m afraid, there will be no banks, and I won’t have any job. Now, peer-to-peer crediting platforms are effectively developing, just as blockchain-based payments technologies,” he told Rambler […]
R3CEV To Open-Source Their Corda Blockchain PlatformR3 has finally shared the details of their work on their financial solution for banks, Corda, based on distributed ledger. The blockchain startup R3, founded in late 2015, leads a consortium of 42 major banks and financial institutions with the single aim – to provide banks the opportunities of the disruptive technology in a way […]
Money 20/20 Conference Opened in CopenhagenApril 4, 2016 – A four-days long conference Money 20/20 Europe opened in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The conference features such prominent speakers as Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, Flavien Charlon, CEO of CoinPrism, and Spencer Spinnal, Google’s VP for Emerging Payments.
North Korea Claims Bitcoin Was Invented by Kim Il SungNorth Korean authorities have claimed cryptocurrency invention. During Wednesday’s evening broadcast of The Voice of Korea, the country’s foreign broadcasting service, the DPRK authorities claimed that Bitcoin had been invented by Kim Il Sung personally to grant prosperity to the people of Korea. “The greatest and most ingenious Kim Il Sung was not only the […]
The Return of the Hearn: Former Core Developer Named the Main Problem of BitcoinFormer developer of Bitcoin Core, and current employee of R3CEV, Mike Hearn reminded the community he’s still alive having claimed that main problems that the cryptocurrency faces are in fact caused by Blockstream, and its co-founder Gregory Maxwell personally.
Russian Parliament Member Calls for Reconsidering Bitcoin Banning PolicyAndrei Lugovoy, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament’s committee on security and anti-corruption stated he stands against complete ban of cryptocurrencies in Russia, as the country’s ministry of finance and investigative committee demand.
Bitcoin Startup Hotmine Creates a Bitcoin Mining HeaterUkrainian Bitcoin startup Hotmine has presented a Bitcoin-mining device combining a very useful function of heating. The solution became possible with ‘Smart heat’ cauldrons. The device is a water heater complete with BitFury’s mining chips that heat up the water in the course of their operation. Upon reaching a particular temperature, the water heats up […]