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On Thursday, 22 nd June, St. Petersburg hosted a large conference dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference St. Petersburg . The event tickets to which were sold out one week prior to the end of registration featured 18 speakers from Russia and other countries. They focused on blockchain development in banking, regulation issues as well as a popular topic – ICO realization by blockchain startups. Over half a thousand people took part in a conference and a demo zone. What were speakers talking about? Artem Tolkachev, the director at Deloitte CIS, dedicated his presentation to the world practice of technology regulations related to blockchain. He believes that ICO’s popularity will disappear maximum in a year because law doesn’t protect investors and startups raising money have no obligations. Investors need protection from “sheer lunacy” which is, actually, ICO, claims the jurist. Dmitry Ermolaev, the project developer at Erachain, talked a...

DECENT is a Blockchain Content Distribution Platform that is Open-Source and utilizes Blockchain to ensure trust and security. The intention of the project is to revolutionize data distribution on the Internet. DECENT Network started its journey with a prototype presentation in January 2016 followed by the ICO in September that same year. Due to its revolutionary vision and support from the ICO participants, they have raised 5881 BTC. Launching the DECENT Platform will disrupt the world of content distribution. “No middleman” is the biggest advantage for DECENT Platform users and ensures instant payment from content consumer to content owner, which allows for a better overall user experience for everyone on DECENT Network. DECENT Platform enabled 2 Testnets, available for people who subscribed, before launching the Mainnet.  Testnet #1 “Caesar” launched in March 2017 and Testnet #2 “Alberti” in May 2017. The launch of DECENT Network, the Blockchain Technology based Content...

On June 7-8, Moscow hosted the 11th International exhibition and forum Russian Gaming Week. The event was focused on the topical issues of the year: new legislative acts, progress of the first Russian gambling zones operation, eSports in the betting sector and the upcoming football world championship. For 11 years of its existence, Russian Gaming Week has become a remarkable event in the gaming sector of the CIS counties. In 2017, the exhibition and forum was attended by more than 2500 people from Russia and abroad. They establish business relationships, conclude partnership agreements, plan business strategies and generate new ideas. RGW-2017 included: Conference involving Russian and foreign experts: more than 20 reports, 12 hours of speeches and discussions; Exhibition of the latest achievements of the gambling sector; For the first time at RGW: an open lecture dedicated to topical issues of betting and gambling; For the first time at RGW: Developer zone, an exhibition platfo...

I have written numerous times about the “ Federated Blockchains ” project by Europecoin Team. Now they have been advancing their work and have presented their first prototype . Its a device for your home network. The collaborative development works in five teams together with the Internet-of-Coins / Coinstorm team, B1-Systems (Openstack and Nextcloud integration company) and three more developers. “Our Hardware Manager, Olaf is the ‘Makers Award’ winner 2017 and currently works at IBM Watson Lab in Germany. The prototype has been developed, to explain the idea to our potential investors. Now having convinced them, development is accelerating. Given, that the “demo model” was based on a Rasperry PI, we have just finished the layout for our own mainboard, with our own hardware encryption chip inside.”, states Matthias Klees. The problem Think of all those great innovations around us, like, for example, cross-chain transactions and smart contracts.  You will see, that none ...