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The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), founded by Bitfury and Covington, announces three days of celebratory conferences in Beijing and Shanghai surrounding the opening of its China chapter. These events follow the GBBC’s formal launch in January, during the Annual World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos, Switzerland and the U.S. opening in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.

The Blockchain Trust Accelerator (BTA), the leading global organization charged with developing Blockchain pilot projects for global good, announced today that its newest Blockchain pilot project will be a partnership with TechSoup, the leading online platform connecting validated nonprofits to in-kind technology and philanthropic resources at scale. The pilot project will use Blockchain technology to strengthen TechSoup’s global validation services, as well as using Blockchain-based smart contracts to create new opportunities for social impact for the thousands of civil society organizations and philanthropic actors who use TechSoup’s information platforms.

In January, The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) was launched during the Annual World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In Davos, innovators, business leaders and former heads of state addressed a capacity audience about the current and future impact of this groundbreaking technology.
Today, the GBBC launches its first US Branch in Washington, D.C.

The Bitfury Group, the world’s largest full service Blockchain technology company and co-creator of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator, announced today that the cutting-edge Blockchain land-titling project it is building with the Republic of Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) is successfully progressing and will continue to advance in 2017. Thanks to this success, Bitfury and NAPR have also signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand its groundbreaking Blockchain technology solutions to other government departments.

The Bitfury Group, the leading global full-service Blockchain technology company, announced this month in Beijing that Greg Li will serve as the company’s Head of Asia. Greg Li brings to the Bitfury Group more than 20 years of management, strategy and business development experience throughout Asia in the hi-tech and financial services industries.

The board of directors of Credit China Fintech Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries announced today that it has entered into a US$30 million deal with BitFury Group Limited. The deal includes an investment in Bitfury shares and the establishment of a joint venture focusing on the China market.

Last week, The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full service Blockchain company, in collaboration with international law-firm Covington, launched the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC). Today, the GBBC released a list of thirty-three founding members. The list is comprised of global business leaders and innovators who represent twenty-five countries, including Australia, Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Georgia, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Latvia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Bitfury Group, the leading global full-service Blockchain technology company, in conjunction with Steptoe & Johnson LLP, announces today that Steptoe will serve as a member and legal services partner of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC). The mission of the GBBC, which was launched last week in Davos around the World Economic Forum 2017 Annual Meeting, is to bring together the world’s leading businesses to educate on the latest innovations and advances in Blockchain technology and advocate for the technology’s global adoption.

This week, The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full service Blockchain company, in collaboration with international law firm Covington, launched the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) around the World Economic Forum 2017 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

The Bitfury Group, the leading global full-service Blockchain technology company, announced today that in collaboration with international law-firm Covington, it is launching the first ever Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) around the World Economic Forum 2017 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland this January.