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ForkLog: Mass Network Acquired by Mycelium’s CEO

Online advertising is a problem as big as the industry itself. However, Mass Network plans to solve this problem by letting users take part in revenue this indu...

ForkLog: Russian Hacker Detained in Czech Republic May Be Linked with BitMarket Hack

According to Tal Be’ery, Microsoft Security Research Manager, Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian hacker detained in the Czech Republic earlier this month, may be linke...

ForkLog: Roskomsvoboda to Challenge Bitcoin Sites Ban

The Center for Protection of Digital Rights has proceeded with bitcoininfo.ru and localbitcoins.com cases. The Center’s lawyers have filed appeals at the Lening...

ForkLog: Blockchain Insurance Platform InChain ICO Ready for Kick-Off

Wednesday, October 26th, InChain, a platform for insurance of cryptocurrency assets, launches its long-awaited ICO. The project aims at creating a decentralized...

ForkLog: Russian Professor to Launch Copernicus Gold, a Cryptocurrency Alternative for SWIFT

Professor Vladimir Frolov, who has founded several regional banks in Russia in the past, has announced a new payments system based on cryptotechnologies. Accord...

ForkLog: Tackling Terrorism: Blockchain vs Laws

In 2016, a set of amendments to anti-terrorism legislation, also known as the Yarovaya Package (called so after the Russian Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya who initi...

ForkLog: Evan Duffield about Dash Evolution, Crippled ICO, and Lack of Competitors

There are quite a number of people in the cryptocommunity eagerly anticipating the upcoming Dash Evolution, the new phase of Dash. However, even Dash’s lead dev...

ForkLog: Paralelní Polis: A Cryptoheaven in the Heart of Europe

For just over two years now, in the very heart of Prague, a conceptually and practically unique establishment called Paralelní Polis has been working to bring t...

ForkLog: Zero Confirmation: Fees Increase in Bitcoin Network

In recent months many bitcoin users have been complaining about their transaction taking hours to get confirmed. Indeed, this happens quite often, and some user...

ForkLog: Cashless Ukraine: The National Bank Considers Blockchain Technology

Recent statements from the National Bank of Ukraine signify the regulator’s intent to use blockchain technology in their Cashless Economy project. Today Ukraine...

ForkLog: Eugene Kaspersky: The World Is Not Ready for Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Yet

Eugene Kaspersky, the head of Kaspersky Lab, believes that even if cryptocurrencies get widely accepted, it is unlikely to happen earlier than “in five hundred ...

ForkLog: GEO: Decentralization and Privacy Without Blockchain

Once bitcoin and other cryptocurrency networks have emerged, decentralization and privacy of transactions started to be associated with the concept of blockchai...

ForkLog: How Big Businesses Get Patent Rights on Blockchain

Inviolability of private property and rights thereto is one of the foundations of modern developed society. And patents are one of the ways to protect this invi...

ForkLog: Russian Billionaire Interested in Industrial Scale Bitcoin Mining

According to Forbes sources, Suleiman Kerimov, CEO of Nafta Moscow, is considering launching a massive cryptocurrency-related project. “I heard Kerimov was inte...

ForkLog: Russia Could Be the First Country to Pass a Cryptocurrency Law

Russia may become the world’s first country to pass a cryptocurrency regulation law, according to the State Duma’s anticorruption and security committee deputy ...

ForkLog: Ambisafe Urges Ethereum to Revise Hardfork Conditions

The Ambisafe team asked EthCore developers to revise their gas limitations issued in the course of preparation for yet another hardfork. They developers insist&...

ForkLog: Bank of Russia Leads New Blockchain Consortium

The Bank of Russia partnered with ten biggest national banks to create “Fintech”, a consortium to implement financial innovations and trial blockchain technolog...

ForkLog: Russian Central Bank Studies Pros and Cons of National Digital Currency

The Central Bank of Russia does not have any pronounced position in regard of cryptocurrencies, yet it intends to study pros and cons of creating a government-c...

ForkLog: SEC Takes Its Times With Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust Decision

The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) wants more time to examine Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) established by the Winklevos...

ForkLog: Russian Sberbank and Federal Antimonopoly Service Launch Joint Blockchain-Based Project

According to Sberbank’s press office, the biggest state owned bank in Russia has joined forces with the Federal Antimonopoly Service to launch Digital Ecosystem...