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The Bitfury Group and health data company Longenesis launched production of a blockchain-based consent management solution for doctors and patients that streamlines data collection for medical research, built on Bitfury’s Exonum blockchain platform.

The Bitfury Group has partnered with leading Korea IT security company Hancom Secure to distribute Bitfury’s Crystal™ analytics platform to their clients. Hancom Secure clients will soon be able to use the Crystal platform to improve KYC/AML procedures, further cybercrime investigations, and support blockchain-based financial services.

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.

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.

Signaling its increasing strength in software development, the Bitfury Group today announced the hires of Marina Khaustova as CEO of CrystalTM Blockchain and Chris Dickson as Bitfury’s Head of Software Sales.

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.

Moving cryptocurrency closer to everyday use, the Bitfury Group announced today they have partnered with Paytomat, a blockchain-based payment processing system, to bring Lightning Network payments to Paytomat’s digital wallet and merchant app.