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ForkLog 55 29.01.2016

Major Ukrainian Freelance Labor Exchange Starts Accepting Bitcoin

Freelance labor exchange Freelancehunt.com became Ukraine’s first platform to announce settlements between customers and contractors in Bitcoin.

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ForkLog 143 25.01.2016

Ukraine vs. UK: European Blockchain Leadership in East and West

While in days gone by the UK and Ukraine had nothing in common but a couple of letters in their names, nowadays the situation has drastically changed. Both countries are beyond any doubt Europe’s most prominent countries in terms of integrating innovative financial technologies in their economies. However, while Great Britain is the obvious fintech […]

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ForkLog 71 18.01.2016

Blockchain to be Used in Yet Another Ukrainian E-Gov Project

Yet another Ukrainian city became a testing platform for blockchain integration in government management. Speaking at Blockchain Incredible Party conference in Ukrainian city of Lviv, Oleksii Konashevych, a spokesman to the electronic democracy reforming group, stated that state services platform would employ a blockchain-based voting system.

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ForkLog 117 14.01.2016

Ukraine’s PrivatBank continues its Bitcoin promotion efforts

Today Ukrainian largest private bank PrivatBank posted an interview about Bitcoin and blockchain with Nicolas Cary from Blockchain.info on the main page of its online banking service Privat24. The bank also sent a newsletter to its customers inviting them to watch the interview.

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ForkLog 74 12.01.2016

Ukrainian Project Develops a Blockchain-based Platform for Property Privatization

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 […]

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ForkLog 110 11.01.2016

International Blockchain Conference BIP 001 Opens in Lviv

JANUARY 11 – Ukrainian city of Lviv hosts international conference titled Blockchain Incredible Party (BIP 001). Addressing during the three-days conference will be experts and entrepreneurs from Belarus, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, UK, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia, USA, Finland and Switzerland. BIP 001 is organized by Distributed Lab, a company engaged in blockchain-based […]

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ForkLog 66 25.12.2015

PrivatBank: Blockchain is Great, but We Put Our Stake on Bitcoin

Dmitri Donets, deputy chairman of e-business center at PrivatBank presented an extended speech on the bank’s cryptocurrency-related intents at Blockchain Conference Kyiv.

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ForkLog 66 17.12.2015

Russian Ministry of Finance: Development for Blockchain, and Ban for Bitcoin

Interest towards blockchain in Russia continues growing, while bitcoin still faces the perspective of banning. Russian Ministry of Finance confirmed its intent to ban cryptocurrency in an exclusive comment to ForkLog.

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ForkLog 70 14.12.2015

PrivatBank Becomes the First Ukrainian Bank to Integrate Bitcoin

Ukraine’s biggest private bank PrivatBank launched a service for cryptocurrency payments. The first company to integrate this new service is online store Allo.

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ForkLog 59 14.12.2015

ChangeTip has blocked account of ForkLog Magazine due to US sanctions against Russia

A few days ago we have noticed some issues in service functioning as it became impossible to send tips via site button. Shortly after that, when we tried to log in into our ChangeTip account, we got the message that our account has been suspended. Then we contacted ChangeTip’s helpdesk and their answer was that […]

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ForkLog 76 11.12.2015

Ukrainian Bitcoin Agency KUNA Notifies Regulators of Upcoming Launch of a Bitcoin Exchange

KUNA Agency submitted a notification as to forthcoming launch of Ukraine’s first bitcoin exchange to the National Bank of Ukraine and to the head of the committee on securities and stock market of Ukrain, Timur Khromariov.

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ForkLog 77 04.12.2015

Major Ukrainian Bank to Work with Bitcoin

One of Ukraine’s biggest banks, PrivatBank, announced finalization of testing period for a service providing merchants with an option of accepting bitcoins for their goods. The service is quite usual for the crypto-space, as it transacts hryvnias (Ukrainaian national currency) to the merchant’s account in case of local acquiring, or Euros in case of international […]

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