#Blockchain

Ukraine’s blockchain community is active these days: the country hosts several major conferences on the subject; several high-flying blockchain projects kick off; a full-fledged university course on dApp development is now underway. Adding to that, local authorities are mostly positive about cryptotechnologies.

National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is interested in further development of high-tech financial market in Ukraine as it will positively influence implementation of the Cashless Economy project.

Blockchain technology and fintech innovations will be among the dominant themes at the Moscow Financial Forum which starts on Thursday, September 23.

Recently, a group of advertising experts and blockchain specialists have joined forces to create Mass Network, a project seeking to solve one of the most critical problems in online advertising, being imbalance between advertisers and regular users who unwillingly provide the former with valuable and expensive information without receiving anything in return.

Bitcoin price consolidates at $625 while two websites related to cryptocurrencies are blocked Russia, ETC is added to the Jaxx wallet and DECENT content distribution network ICO is finally launched. These are just some of the news from the past week.

There is a lot of hype around the integration of blockchain technology into various existing projects. It’s true that one could benefit from such upgrade, but there are some downsides too.

Bitcoin back onto a growing track again, Monero becoming a darknet “star”, Apple not happy with Dash, and other hot topics in ForkLog’s weekly news digest.

According to European Parliament budget amendments, the draft amendment was tabled by MEP Jakob von Weizsäcker of Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He claims that effectuation will cost €1 Million. Weizsäcker justifies the costs: “More than one billion euros have been invested in DLT and regulators as well as legislators lack the technical expertise […]