Russia | ForkLog - Part 111

ForkLog 201 26.10.2016

Roskomsvoboda to Challenge Bitcoin Sites Ban

The Center for Protection of Digital Rights has proceeded with bitcoininfo.ru and localbitcoins.com cases. The Center’s lawyers have filed appeals at the Leningrad Oblast Court challenging the rulings that violate substantive and procedural laws. The sites in questions had been banned in Russia this September. Timeweb.com, the hosting provider for bitcoininfo.ru, has blocked access to […]

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ForkLog 79 25.10.2016

Russian Professor to Launch Copernicus Gold, a New Cryptocurrency Payment System

Professor Vladimir Frolov, who has founded several regional banks in Russia in the past, has announced a new payments system based on cryptotechnologies. According Frolov’s recent Facebook post, the project dubbed Copernicus Gold will kick off in early 2017 in Singapore.

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ForkLog 79 19.10.2016

Sberbank Subsidiary Launches Cornerstone, a Blockchain Service for Protected Transactions

Delovaya Sreda (“Business Environment”), a subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia, has launched Cornerstone, a free service for execution of protected transactions using blockchain technology.

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ForkLog 122 18.10.2016

Russian Billionaire Interested in Industrial Scale Bitcoin Mining

According to Forbes sources, Suleiman Kerimov, CEO of Nafta Moscow, is considering launching a massive cryptocurrency-related project.

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ForkLog 67 16.10.2016

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.

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ForkLog 215 14.10.2016

Bank of Russia Leads New Blockchain Consortium

The Bank of Russia partnered with ten biggest national banks to create ‘Fintech’, a consortium to implement financial innovations and trial blockchain technology.

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ForkLog 92 14.10.2016

Russian Central Bank Studies Pros and Cons of National Digital Currency

The Central Bank of Russia does not have any pronounced position in regard of cryptocurrencies, yet it intends to study pros and cons of creating a government-controlled digital currency, the Central Bank’s deputy chairwoman Olga Skorobogatova stated at Finnopolis 2016 forum in Kazan.

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ForkLog 56 13.10.2016

Russian Sberbank and Federal Antimonopoly Service Launch Joint Blockchain-Based Project

According to Sberbank’s press office, the biggest state owned bank in Russia has joined forces with the Federal Antimonopoly Service to launch Digital Ecosystem, a project aimed at transferring and storing documents in encrypted form using a digital signature.

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ForkLog 68 07.10.2016

Russia’s Tax Service to Use Blockchain to Get Rid of Tax Statements

Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS) has stated its intent to use blockchain technology in getting away from statement-based mechanism of working with companies. FTS believes it would significantly simplify the exchange of documents and render an enormous accountancy staff unnecessary along with increasing the system’s overall efficiency.

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ForkLog 126 06.10.2016

Russian Banks Test Blockchain-Based Service for Customer Data Exchange

Russia’s biggest banks have run a series of test transactions using an Ethereum-based blockchain prototype developed by Cinimex.

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ForkLog 156 28.09.2016

Russian Blockchain.Community Future Remains Uncertain

Artem Tolkachev, chairman of Russia’s Blockchain.Community spoke to ForkLog at Bitcoin&Blockchain Conference Kyiv about the future of the community and current state of affairs in Russia’s blockchain industry.

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ForkLog 73 25.09.2016

Russia’s Sberbank Outlines Its Blockchain Strategy

Sberbank CTO Pavel Khodalev took to the stage at the Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai talking about the bank’s blockchain strategy going forward.

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