Russia

The honorary member of the jury in the public trial of scammers, Ivan Tikhonov, a Blockchain Community board member and the founder of Bits.media, the biggest forum and news outlet about cryptocurrencies and Blockchain in Russia with 100,000 views per day, shares his opinion, on why CEO of Razormind, Jawad Yaqub, had no plans to do any real work.

Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia, who is also an ex-president of the Russian Federation, instructed authorities to adopt Blockchain technology in the Russian economy.

From miners to miners. Bitcoin users and miners can now buy marble, limestone and mineral powders using cryptocurrency.

The Commissioner under the President of Russia on the Rights of Entrepreneurs, Boris Titov, recently suggested allowing businesses in the Kaliningrad, a federal subject of the Russian Federation located on the coast of the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania, to hold cryptocurrency accounts.

Internet ombudsman has proposed allowing citizens of Crimea to use cryptocurrencies and the opening of a cryptocurrency exchange on the peninsula.

My name is Alexey Anthonov and I am a private investor in Blockchain projects, as well as a Blockchain tech evangelist in Russia. I’m the director of BCFoundation, the first organisation in Russia to support the development of Blockchain technology. I truly adore different tech innovation startups that can change any part of business, government or society.

Mmmglobal is a pyramid scheme authored by Russian fraudster Sergei Mavrodi. The scheme has numerous localized websites for every country or region where it operates. Recently, BCC authored a warning on mmmnigeria, the Nigeria chapter of mmmglobal citing it’s a scam aimed at stealing funds.

S7 Airlines, in partnership with Alpha Bank, have conducted еhe first Blockchain payment using Ethereum-based smart contracts in Russia.

The Russian Federal Tax Service has published a letter on measures to control cryptocurrency circulation and exchange.