#Ukraine

Bitcoin and blockchain have recently become the most discussed issue in Ukrainan fintech sector. As government institutions gradually become loyal to cryptotechnologies, local community becomes more active, and more and more merchants at least consider accepting bitcoin, even if they have not started accepting it yet.

Now Ukrainian residents may pay for cinema, theater, and other tickets with Bitcoins. Cryptocurrency payments for those services became possible due to event aggregator and online store 2show.mobi.

Prototype of bitcoin-mining lightbulb BitLamp by BitFury was presented at Blockchain Incredible Party in Odessa (Ukraine).

On June 11th, the extended meeting of the Ukrainian National Banks’ public council committee on natural person payments examined Project for Bitcoin development in Ukraine presented by Mikhail Chobanian, Kuna Bitcoin Agency founder, and co-founder and co-executive of Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine.

Special Read in Russian Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine joined Ukrainian interbank association EMA and is going to introduce Ukrainan BitLicense project at a Ukrainian National Bank meeting.

Special! Read in Russian Ukrainian cryptocurrency exchange Btc-trade.com.ua has once again announced it was hacked.

Special Read in Russian It’s a common knowledge that presently Ukraine is facing economical and political crisis, yet, notwithstanding all the difficulties it presents, bitcoin community is quite active there. One may buy bitcoins from a kiosk or a payment terminal in Kyiv and Lviv, and even pay for a cup of coffee with cryptocurrency. […]