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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.

The Bitfury Group has added founder of Korelya Capital Antoine Dresch to its board of directors and Annette Nazareth, a former member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to its advisory board.

The Bitfury Group has acquired a substantial minority stake in Final Frontier, a financial services firm that specializes in the blockchain industry. Final Frontier was founded by a group of seasoned investment professionals with decades of experience in the traditional financial services industry.

Allied Control Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bitfury Group, will participate this week in the SC18 conference, where it will exhibit its record-breaking solutions for ultra-high density high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

Trendalyze Inc. and the Bitfury Group today announced plans to integrate Bitfury’s Crystal blockchain analytics service into Trendalyze, a micro-trends analytics, monitoring, prediction and search platform.

The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology company, has closed an $80 million USD private placement with global institutional and corporate investors.

The Bitfury Group announced today the release of version 1.6.0 of its Crystal Blockchain Analytics tool, which adds analytical support for Bitcoin Cash and improved user functionality.

The Bitfury Group announced today it is partnering with PatentBot to use blockchain to digitally timestamp copyright documents, providing a secure and permanent way to prove authorship and protect intellectual property. PatentBot is a bot-registrar of trademarks, which can reduce the time it takes to file documents to less than 10 minutes. The integration of blockchain into its services will help streamline and secure the complicated copyright system. To obtain a copyright, creators must prove their primacy in bringing the idea to life and that they have a verifiable record of the date and content of the work.

The Bitfury Group today launched its new enterprise grade bitcoin miner, the Bitfury Tardis, the latest generation of its B8 mining server. The Bitfury Tardis is a significantly advanced version of Bitfury’s B8 mining server that offers a performance of up to 80 TH/s (terahashes per second) and includes new features that improve user experience and reduce overall maintenance. The Bitfury Tardis is equipped with Bitfury’s new high-performing Clarke ASIC chips and is fully upgradable, so hashboards can be replaced upon the arrival of new ASIC generations.

The Bitfury Group today announced the appointment of technology expert and seasoned IT manager Eun Chul Lee to lead Bitfury’s Korea operations, formally marking the company’s expansion into Korea’s dynamic blockchain market. As Head of Korea, Lee will build business relations and identify opportunities for Bitfury in Korea’s growing blockchain ecosystem.