Decentralized Marketplace OpenBazaar Integrates ShapeShift
ShapeShift.io, a blockchain asset exchange platform, has partnered with online bitcoin-enabled marketplace OpenBazaar via their integration of the ShapeShift Shifty Button.
Decentralized Marketplace OpenBazaar Integrates ShapeShift
ShapeShift.io, a blockchain asset exchange platform, has partnered with online bitcoin-enabled marketplace OpenBazaar via their integration of the ShapeShift Shifty Button.
Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies in Our Lives: ForkLog Readers Poll Results
Several weeks ago, ForkLog announced a readers poll, with 1,038 users participating. Our editorial board has summarized the readers’ answers, so that everyone could decide for themselves as to the degree of cryptocurrency integration in our lives.
Russia Lacks Legal Terrain for Cryptocurrency Regulation Says Technology Advocate
Elina Sidorenko, head of Russian State Duma (Parliament) working group on assessment of cryptocurrency risks, admits there’s not much to say about legalization of cryptocurrencies die to the legal vacuum.
Number of Bitcoin Ban Supporters Decreases in Russia
According to a nationwide survey by NAFI Center for Analytics, over the course of the last 12 months the percentage of Russians believing that bitcoin should be banned has dropped down to 20 per cent, with 34 per cent speaking in favor of the cryptocurrency.
Eugene Kaspersky: The World Is Not Ready for Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Yet
Eugene Kaspersky, the head of Kaspersky Lab, believes that even if cryptocurrencies get widely accepted, it is unlikely to happen earlier than “in five hundred years,” and only in the form of some analogs of what we know today.
Russia Could Be the First Country to Pass a Cryptocurrency Law
Russia may become the world’s first country to pass a cryptocurrency regulation law, according to the State Duma’s anticorruption and security committee deputy chairman Andrei Lugovoi.
Japan to End 8% Bitcoin Sales Tax
According to media reports, Japan’s Financial Services Agency, the country’s financial regulator, is weighing on abandoning the 8% sales tax which bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are currently subject to.
Ukraine’s Payment Service Founder Says Blockchain Is Exceptionally Interesting in Terms of Commerce
Each day, blockchain, the technology that underlies Bitcoin, penetrates the world of finances deeper and deeper with many signs pointing to it eventually winning a big part of the market. Ukraine is no exception in this regard. Moreover, the largest country in Europe  has every reason to consider itself one of blockchain’s trend-makers.
InChain Set to Provide Assets Insurance at Cryptocurrency Exchanges
The idea of creating an insurance platform for the cryptocurrency industry has been on the front burner for a while. There are plenty of stories telling how blockchain and bitcoin related projects fail because of hackers, insufficient security or simply human errors. All these factors impede the industry’s development, scare people away, and cause mass […]
Russian Ministry of Finance Denounces Direct Ban of Bitcoin
According to the statement by Alexei Moiseev, Russia’s deputy minister of finance, the ministry denounces any direct ban of bitcoin.
Russian Officials and Businesses Discuss Cryptocurrencies
Wednesday, August 24 – A meeting dedicated to the place for blockchain technology in Russia and possibility of its nation-wide implementation was held in Moscow, at the Russian president administration HQ, with the state internet counsellor German Klimenko as the chairman.
Russian Tax Authorities Recommend Reporting Bitcoin Operations
This May, Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS) received an internet request from a cryptocurrency user who asked it to clarify whether it’s necessary to provide reports on cryptocurrency buy/sell operations between residents and non-residents. The FTS’s response outlines some interesting issues in this grey legal zone.We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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