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ForkLog 74 02.12.2015

Ukraine’s First Bitcoin Exchange Launches Crowdsale

Bitcoin agency KUNA announced a crowdsale for Ukraine’s first bitcoin exchange. Auction set to sale 10 percent of shares of the new platform launches on December, 13.

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ForkLog 59 18.11.2015

Ukraine Business Closes the Ranks around the Blockchain

A search in the house of one of Ukraine’s bitcoin community leaders, Mikhail Chobanian, triggered a series of events. Just two weeks afterwards, his lawyers managed to obtain a court ruling to remove an attachment of the seized property.

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d dd 46 11.11.2015

Voters in Ukraine Bribed with Bitcoin

According to a source in Ukrainian Cyberpolice, bitcoins converted into hryvnias (Ukrainian national currency) have been employed to bribe voters at local elections several weeks ago.

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ForkLog 60 06.11.2015

Ukraine’s Bitcoin Community Starts a Blockchain Revolution

Following an unjustified search at his apartment Tuesday night, Mikhail Chobanian, leader of Ukraine’s bitcoin community, initiated an urgent discussion concerning government pressure on the country’s IT businesspeople.

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ForkLog 78 04.11.2015

Ukrainian Bitcoin Jesus Searched by Law Enforcement

On the night of November 3, the premises of Mikhail Chobanyan, VP at Innovecs and founder of Kuna, were searched by anti-cybercrime department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the resolution of prosecutor’s office of Shevchenko district (Kyiv).

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ForkLog 77 27.10.2015

Ukraine becomes CIS’s Bitcoin & Blockchain leader

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.

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ForkLog 115 02.10.2015

Ukraine: Tickets for Any Show Now Available for Bitcoins

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.

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ForkLog 263 02.07.2015

BitFury’s Miner Lightbulb Shines at BIP001

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

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ForkLog 39 12.06.2015

National Bank of Ukraine is ready to work on Bitcoin legalisation

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.

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ForkLog 49 09.06.2015

Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine Joined Ukrainian Interbank Association EMA

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.

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ForkLog 103 05.05.2015

Ukrainian Bitcoin Exchange BTC-TRADE Hacked Again

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

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ForkLog 97 24.04.2015

Bitcoin will change Ukraine forever

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. […]

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