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On May 5th, during the Annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting weekend, the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), in partnership with the Greater Omaha Chamber, will host a first-ever Blockchain event focused on business solutions and the role of technology in the future economy across sectors. The event, “New Kids on the Blockchain,” will be held at the Kaneko in Omaha, Nebraska.

“The best way to think about this technology is that it’s like a global notary,” said Jamie Smith, ex-president of the Global Blockchain Business Council. “People are using this mostly to move money at the moment, but it’s really a digital token for people to use and access databases around the world.”

Cointelegraph spoke to Val Vavilov, The Bitfury Group CEO, about mining, government Blockchain implementation, the first SegWit block mined and future plans for the company.

n April 2016, the Georgian government and the Bitcoin company BitFury initiated a project to record land titles on the Blockchain.

Following the project initiation, on Feb. 7th, 2017, in Tbilisi, the government of Georgia signed an agreement to use the Bitcoin Blockchain to verify property transactions.

And on 19th of April 2017, Val Vavilov, CEO of BitFury during his speech at the Russian Internet Forum in Moscow, said, that since the launch in February 2017, when his company along with the government of the Republic of Georgia implemented the property registration on Blockchain had registered more than 100,000 documents.

Ukraine has partnered with global technology company the Bitfury Group to put a sweeping range of government data on a blockchain platform, the firm's chief executive officer told Reuters, in a project he described as probably the largest of its kind anywhere.

In April 2016, the Republic of Georgia's National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), renowned Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto, and Bitcoin company Bitfury announced a partnership to design and pilot a blockchain land-titling project. Now, Bitfury and NAPR have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand the blockchain solutions developed by the project to other government departments.

The Bitfury Group, the world’s largest full service Blockchain technology company and co-creator of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator, announced today that the cutting-edge Blockchain land-titling project it is building with the Republic of Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) is successfully progressing and will continue to advance in 2017. Thanks to this success, Bitfury and NAPR have also signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand its groundbreaking Blockchain technology solutions to other government departments.

In a vote of confidence for a fledgling technology, the Republic of Georgia committed in a signing ceremony in Tbilisi on Tuesday to use the bitcoin network to validate property-related government transactions. In April last year, the government and bitcoin hardware and software firm Bitfury Group launched a project to register land titles via a private blockchain, which is a tamper-proof ledger, and then to make those transactions verifiable using bitcoin’s blockchain, which is public.

According to Val Vavilov, if blockchain were in use today, Donald Trump would never again be able to claim that a vote had been rigged. The 37-year-old is one of a group of chief executives developing the new form of technology and who, instead of only talking in the corporate language of strategy and returns on investment, argue zealously that blockchain will change the world, making systems from banking to voting more transparent and democratic.

Blockchain technology provider BitFury Group announced on Thursday announced a deal with Hong Kong-listed fintech service provider Credit China Fintech Holdings to set up a joint venture that will focus on the Chinese market.