Cryptocurrency & Blockchain breaking news

The Russian Deputy Finance Minister, Alexey Moiseev, has said that authorities hope to recognize bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in Russia in 2018.

Polish cryptocurrency market welcomes best practices adopted by the government on March 29. Companies in the industry hope it will help Poland get back to being one of the Top-5 markets in the world.

Customers of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Poloniex, have recently received messages stating that this cryptocurrency exchange has to shut down all operations in Washington state, US. Washington residents have only two weeks to close any open orders and withdraw funds from Poloniex.

Proof, a Korean financial technology company run by American and European expats, has launched property investment opportunities whereby users can buy small stakes of ownership for less than $3.

The micronation, located between Serbia and Croatia, will be celebrating its second anniversary next week. Zlatko Sucic, Liberland’s Commercial Attache to Serbia told to a correspondent from Coinidol.com about the country’s own form of cryptocurrency, called Merit and the way to get citizenship of the state.

R3 is not yet ready to accept Russian banks as members of the Blockchain consortium. The largest bank in Russia, Sberbank, wanted to join the R3 Blockchain consortium, however, R3 has made it clear that this application would be rejected due to sanctions.

The People's Cooperative in St. Petersburg, Russia, plans to launch an ICO to finance food factory and stores.

South Korea takes another step toward becoming the leading country to adopt Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Samsung launches a new blockchain-based cloud computing platform called Nexledger.

On April 1, Coinidol closed the voting on which charity organization should get the $1,000* in Bitcoin of scammers’ money, and the crypto community has chosen BitGive.