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Ukraine’s Ministry for Digital Transformation will be tracking illicit crypto transactions with a crypto analytics startup backed by Bitfury.
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Valery Vavilov is BitFury’s co-founder and CEO. Valery Vavilov was born and raised in Latvia. He started programming when he was 14 years old. Before he co-founded BitFury in 2011 — a multifunctional blockchain-company that is one of the largest outside of China — he was working on startups, consulting and managing. In 2010, Valery Vavilov started learning about blockchain technologies after a call from another BitFury co-founder — Valery Nebesny. According to Valery Vavilov, the main purpose of the project is to make as many as possible things people do in their daily life online in order to make the process more secure and transparent. In 2018, Valery Vavilov was published in Forbes as one of the richest people from the crypto industry. According to Forbes, Valery Vavilov’s net worth is between $500 and $700 million.
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Ukraine’s government is going to auction seized assets through decentralized Blockchain for more transparent accountability.
25306 Bitfury, which has maintained its position as the second largest mining pool in the market, released its first enterprise-grade Blockchain software.
11516Bitcoin Core developers have criticized the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement presented by Digital Currency Group and 56 other companies that represent approximately 83 percent of hashing power.
15130Bitcoin scaling solution consensus has been reached among key industry players. SegWit and 2MB block size increase to be implemented.
26499Cointelegraph spoke to Valery Vavilov, BitFury CEO, about mining, government Blockchain implementation, the first SegWit block mined and future plans of his company.
8614Georgia signed an agreement to use the Bitcoin Blockchain to verify property transactions. This is the first time a national government is using the Blockchain to safeguard and authenticate state operations.
9383Leading Blockchain infrastructure provider and Bitcoin mining firm BitFury secured a $30 mln investment from a Hong Kong-based fintech company Credit China Fintech to launch a joint Bitcoin venture in China.
1060Bitfury Group and Covington establish the Global Blockchain Business Council, announcing it at Davos on the eve of the Trump succession.
1384ACINQ has successfully tested and implemented leading Blockchain technology company Bitfury’s algorithm solution for instant payments routing on the Lightning Network.
1411With the growing buzz around the Blockchain technology, we have gathered predictions of experts from different branches on its future evolution and prospects in future.
665BitFury NABC says a contentious hard-fork right now would be extremely detrimental to the bitcoin ecosystem.
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