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The Bitfury Group announced it has integrated the Bitcoin Lightning Network into the merchant payment processing platform offered by HadePay. Merchants across the United States, Canada and the European Union can now use the HadePay platform to accept Lighting Network bitcoin payments, using Bitfury’s Peach merchant API.

The partnership between Bitfury, the world's leading full-service blockchain technology company, Longenesis, a startup that merges AI and blockchain, and MDW radiology marketplace will create a next-generation platform for maintaining, sharing and securing medical imaging and diagnostics data. Deployment of this blockchain infrastructure is expected to set new industry standards for healthcare blockchain implementation.

The Bitfury Group and the Seoul-based Commons Foundation have announced a partnership to open and operate bitcoin transaction processing centers in Paraguay as part of the foundation’s “Golden Goose” initiative to expand cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation in Spanish-speaking countries.

The Bitfury Group today released a product bundle designed to make the Lightning Network easier for vendors and consumers to use. The product list includes an open-source Lightning Network-enabled bitcoin wallet, a hardware terminal and e-commerce software for merchants and payment processors to accept Lightning Network payments, a suite of developer tools, and a public Lightning Network node to help bitcoin users open and create payment channels. The products were created and are supported by Bitfury’s Lightning Network engineering and research team, Lightning Peach.

Blockchain technology firm Bitfury has released a suite of business and development tools for bitcoin’s lightning network. Although the network is still under development, Bitfury announced a comprehensive product list to support the tech on Wednesday, including an open-source lightning wallet and hardware and software tools for merchants and payment processors to accept payments. It also released developer tools and a public lightning network node called to let bitcoin users open or create payment channels.

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Bitfury Group today released the first-ever Arabic and Hindi translations of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Translations Will Help Spur Wider Adoption of Bitcoin and Blockchain.

Blockchain technology firm Bitfury is looking to reinforce its software unit with two executive-level hires. Announced today, Marina Khaustova, former chief marketing officer and co-founder of Element Capital Group, has joined Bitfury as the CEO of Crystal Blockchain, the company’s analytical tool for investigating public blockchain transactions. Meanwhile, Chris Dickson, previously at enterprise software vendor Panaya, joined Bitfury as head of software sales.

Global blockchain company The Bitfury Group announced on Wednesday the launch of a music and entertainment division that will create an open-source music platform secured by the bitcoin blockchain. The open-source platform, named Surround™, will encourage collaboration and promote innovation within the industry, the company said.

The Bitfury Group today launched Bitfury Surround, a music entertainment division that will design blockchain solutions to address challenges faced by artists and other stakeholders in the music industry. Bitfury Surround’s first initiative will be to create an open-source music platform secured by the Bitcoin Blockchain. The open-source platform, named Surround™, will encourage collaboration, foster fresh applications and promote innovation within the industry.

Undoubtedly, the Netherlands is one of the most capable countries to establish a business with an idea. Possessing a plethora of advantages including huge market, several needs and technically growing economy, the land of Dutch is inching towards becoming one of the world’s best markets with some incredible startups. Bitfury is listed first in this article, having raised the most financing in 2018 out of the twenty Dutch startups listed.