Europe

Since VISA’s decision to suspend all Bitcoin prepaid debit and virtual cards issued by Wave Crest Holding in the EU, citizens of Europe and many other countries have had no option to use cryptocurrency cards for withdrawals and POS payments. However, two cryptocurrency-related companies are preparing to bring their new physical and virtual cards to the market.

Virtual Reality (VR) developers ImmVRse is pleased to announce an official sponsorship agreement for Blockchain 360, as part of the TechXLR8 tech festival in London from June 11th to 18th, 2018. TechXLR8 is the anchor event for the London Tech Week annual conference, one of the biggest and most visited in Europe, supported by the UK government and Mayor of London.

Austrian law officers have asked Interpol for help in tracking down the perpetrators of a Bitcoin scam that happened last year. The notorious scam dubbed “Optioment” has allegedly damaged over ten thousand cryptocurrency investors in the country and across Europe and stolen as many as 12,000 Bitcoins.

A new Committee concerning blockchain use has been set up by both the Gaming Standards Association (GSA) and Gaming Standards Association Europe (GSA Europe) according to an announcement GSA made at ICE Totally Gaming, where the organization celebrated its 20th anniversary.

On January 5, 2018, Wave Crest Holding a company issuer of Bitcoin debit and virtual cards announced it was closing all of its Visa prepaid cards due to a change in operating permissions. As a result, all the cryptocurrency cards issued for customers in Europe became unavailable for POS payments and withdrawals.

Rustam Kutuev, business developer at Finom AG Blockchain Corp, founder of Pride Games Game Studios and the Cryptal mining center in Russia, used to own two car repair shops and car rental services. He even used to export fuel pellets to Europe, but now he has a new passion –  cryptocurrency production.

Rentberry was founded in 2015 and has achieved great success in the blockchain industry so far. Rentberry successfully raised $4M from high-profile investors and VC funds from 11 countries and 19 US states. Currently, the platform operates all across the US and has more than 120k users and 224k properties. The company has plans to expand to Europe and Asia in the next few years.

Flatio.cz, a real estate startup that offers apartments to rent for a period of 1 to 6 months, has announced that it is now accepting Bitcoin. A new service is currently available in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Vienna, Bratislava and Berlin.

Worldcore announces an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), as part of their wider expansion plans.