#Blockchain

Former Bitcoin Core developer and one of bitcoin’s earliest adopters Mike Hearn stated he abandoned digital currency ecosystem as it suffers from a massive crisis.

A Ukraine-based project is in the process of developing an automatic system for holding online auctions for leasing and selling of state-owned property using blockchain technology. Some of the project’s details became public during BIP001 conference and Blockchain Conference Kyiv back in September 2015. The project’s representatives Lasha Antadze and David Kiziria stated that the […]

Recently BTCC has launched 100 full nodes across five continents in order to maintain decentralized arrangement of the bitcoin system. Back then, the company explained this move by its wish to keep bitcoin away from any centralization. Samson Mow, COO at BTCC, stated that the company has launched the nodes in order to help the […]

The year 2015 has certainly become the year when major banks finally faced the fact that innovations cannot be overcome, and that the old system is in decline. However, as I mentioned earlier in another article, the enthusiasm of the community regarding the corporate world’s warm embrace of the blockchain is at least premature. At […]

Tunisia will become the world’s first country to operate its national currency via blockchain. The blockchain in question, however, is an advanced version of the bitcoin’s one developed by Monetas. With population of about 11 million, Tunisia has more than 3 million people unbanked. However, 600,000 of them using eDinar, a digital version of the […]

The latest report released by Visa Europe discussing the current matters in the payments industry gave profound consideration to innovations in financial technologies, as well as blockchain-based solutions.

Speaking at conference Feedback on December 23, Grigori Bakunov, technology distribution executive at Yandex, introduced several possible major technological trends for the forthcoming years. Among other things, they include the blockchain technology, the internet of things, and artificial intelligence. Explaining his views on smart objects and bitcoin, Bakunov said: “Thank god, people realized bitcoin was […]

Russian Internet Development Institute (IDI) offered the president Vladimir Putin a roadmap regulating implementation of blockchain technology. Moreover, the roadmap includes proposals as to crowd-funding and crowd-investment, facilitate taxation of freelancers, and withdraw limitations on anonymous payments for tax and loan purposes.