Close

From The Bitfury Group Newsroom

Search
Global Blockchain Business Council Expands European Foothold

Global Blockchain Business Council Expands European Foothold

Oct 18, 2017

www.coindesk.com

The Global Blockchain Business Council is ramping up its presence in Europe. Announced today, the technology advocacy group co-founded by blockchain services firm Bitfury Group will host a blockchain-focused summit at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday in conjunction with Eva Kaili, a parliament member from Greece. At the event, the council will brief members of the EU parliament and representatives from the European Commission on the challenges and solutions offered by blockchain technology.

Read more
How To Explain Cryptocurrencies And Blockchains To The Average Person

How To Explain Cryptocurrencies And Blockchains To The Average Person

Oct 03, 2017

www.forbes.com

Smith, the ex-global chief communications officer for Bitcoin hardware and software firm Bitfury and CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council, along with Amanda Gutterman, the chief marketing officer of Ethereum venture production studio ConsenSys, rebut every common misconception about cryptocurrencies and answer all the most common questions about them.

Read more
Politico Playbook - John Mercurio Joins The Bitfury Group

Politico Playbook - John Mercurio Joins The Bitfury Group

Sep 22, 2017

www.politico.com

TRANSITIONS -- FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- JOHN MERCURIO has been named deputy global chief communications officer of The Bitfury Group. He previously worked in senior strategic roles at Purple Strategies and Burson-Marsteller.

Read more
Ukrainian ministry carries out first blockchain transactions

Ukrainian ministry carries out first blockchain transactions

Sep 07, 2017

www.reuters.com

Ukraine’s justice ministry carried out trial auctions using blockchain technology for the first time on Wednesday, part of an effort to improve transparency in government transactions. The project is part of a broader drive by the Ukrainian authorities to modernize state institutions and eliminate corruption, in exchange for a $40 billion bailout from the International Monetary fund and other donors. In April, global technology firm the Bitfury Group announced it was working with Ukraine to put a wide range of government data on a blockchain platform - a ledger of transactions that permanently records and tracks assets or transactions.

Read more
Ukraine's Government Plans to Auction Seized Assets On a Blockchain

Ukraine's Government Plans to Auction Seized Assets On a Blockchain

Sep 07, 2017

www.coindesk.com

Ukraine's justice ministry has begun testing the use of a blockchain to digitally auction seized assets, according to a report by Reuters. The use of the platform will expand as the year progresses, with an eye to implementing state property and land registries onto the blockchain by the end of the year. Towards this goal, the government has been formally partnered with blockchain firm Bitfury since April.

Read more
Necker Island Blockchain Summit Kicks Off With Doses Of Idealism And Realism

Necker Island Blockchain Summit Kicks Off With Doses Of Idealism And Realism

Aug 27, 2017

www.forbes.com

Many blockchain and crypto asset-focused conferences have an obvious financial focus. But the most idealistic and socially conscious of them, the Blockchain Summit hosted by the Bitcoin mining and blockchain services company Bitfury Group and venture capitalist Bill Tai, commenced Tuesday on Sir Richard Branson's private island, Necker, with a different bent. Before even arriving on the island, some attendees on the same flight dived right into discussions of how to use crypto tokens to create social good such as reducing air pollution.

Read more
Lightning Bank Ledgers? Bitfury and Ripple Demo New Twist on Bitcoin Tech

Lightning Bank Ledgers? Bitfury and Ripple Demo New Twist on Bitcoin Tech

Aug 17, 2017

www.coindesk.com

Bitcoin's much-anticipated Lightning Network is now compatible with seven different payment networks. Today, blockchain services firm Bitfury and payments network provider Ripple are releasing new code that makes it possible to conduct Lightning-style transactions across a range of both blockchain and legacy payment networks. While still in its early stages of deployment, it's believed the Lightning Network could one day expand bitcoin's capacity to millions of transactions by moving those transactions off of the main bitcoin blockchain.

Read more
U.S. Blockchain Company in Tie-Up on Medical Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Blockchain Company in Tie-Up on Medical Artificial Intelligence

Aug 11, 2017

www.nytimes.com

The Bitfury Group has formed a partnership with Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based medical artificial intelligence (AI) firm, to create new applications for the healthcare industry using blockchain, Bitfury's chief executive officer said on Friday.

Read more
Blockchain Summit Examines The Role Of Privilege In Spreading A Democratizing Technology

Blockchain Summit Examines The Role Of Privilege In Spreading A Democratizing Technology

Aug 04, 2017

www.forbes.com

Ever since Silicon Valley’s elite became interested in cryptocurrency, they have grappled with the question of how, in their quest to build these decentralized, blockchain-based systems that have the power to democratize society, they should manage their own privilege and influence.

That dilemma was in stark relief during last week’s Blockchain Summit, the most socially conscious and idealistically minded of all such conferences, which took place on Sir Richard Branson’s luxurious private island, Necker, in the British Virgin Islands.

Read more
Blockchain Summit Asks, How Can Bitcoin And Blockchain Technology Empower Women?

Blockchain Summit Asks, How Can Bitcoin And Blockchain Technology Empower Women?

Jul 31, 2017

www.forbes.com

When Roya Mahboob, 30, a serial entrepreneur from Afghanistan, began her startup, Women’s Annex, a platform for women to upload blogs and videos and be paid for views, the company found that paying the women didn’t empower them financially. While by law Afghan women could have bank accounts, their families didn’t want them to. “For one woman, her husband always hit her and took all the money from her,” said Mahboob, who then learned about Bitcoin and decided to begin paying the women with it. This is was one of the many powerful stories around the theme of women’s empowerment told last week during the Blockchain Summit sponsored by the Bitcoin mining and blockchain services firm Bitfury Group and venture capitalist Bill Tai, with special support from China Credit Fintech, on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island.

Read more

Have a media inquiry?

Contact us