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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.

The Bitfury Group today launched a new generation of bitcoin mining hardware, led by its newest bitcoin mining ASIC chip, Bitfury Clarke. Building on Bitfury’s successful five generations of mining chips, the Bitfury Clarke ASIC offers the strongest performance characteristics among bitcoin mining chips and is unparalleled in performance and efficiency. Aside from selling Bitfury Clarke chipsets, Bitfury is integrating Bitfury Clarke into its other industry-leading bitcoin mining hardware, including its mining servers and BlockBoxes, as well as in its own bitcoin mining centers in Canada, Norway, Iceland and the Republic of Georgia.

The Bitfury Group and Waverley Software today announced a strategic partnership to develop blockchain applications for clients. Bitfury, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology company, and Waverley, a renowned full-cycle Silicon Valley-based custom software development firm, will collaborate to deliver unique encryption software, GDPR-compliant blockchain-based systems and blockchain applications to businesses and organizations globally.

The Bitfury Group announced today that Crystal Blockchain Inc. has joined the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies (ASCIA) as a gold-level corporate partner. Crystal Blockchain is the team of experts who built and support Bitfury’s blockchain analytics tool Crystal, which is designed for law enforcement and financial institutions to view and track transactions and related entities on the Bitcoin Blockchain. Crystal Blockchain joins an extensive list of ASCIA members, including state bureaus of criminal investigation from almost all 50 U.S. states.

The Bitfury Group today named Jeffrey Mason as Head of Bitfury’s operations in Canada, underscoring the company’s continued expansion in the country. Mason will lead Bitfury’s growth in Canada, identifying new partnership opportunities in one of the world’s most dynamic markets and working closely with the company’s Canadian subsidiary, Hut 8 Mining Corp.

A syndicate of investors including Angelvest, Bitfury, and a consortium of cryptocurrency traders is making a $3 million equity investment to the AI application development platform Dbrain.

The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service Blockchain technology company, announced today that its developers have successfully tested the Lightning Network on the main Bitcoin network. Committed to the success of the Lightning Network and the wider Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitfury engineers have been conducting research and carrying out tests to perform Lightning transactions using the current Bitcoin protocol. After much research, the Bitfury team succeeded in sending a real-time bitcoin transaction on the Lightning Network, which can be seen in a video demo.

During its annual Blockchain Summit, the Bitfury Group today launched “BE BIG,” a global education initiative that will advance the adoption of blockchain as the technology of digital trust.

Bitfury's head of government relations, Vlad Radysh, gave the keynote speech at the governance conference EuroDig 2018 in Tbilisi, Georgia.