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At the moment, there are a lot of opportunities to spend bitcoins in Ukraine: you can buy clothes, auto goods, furniture or mining equipment with them, and a large online hardware store recently pleased cryptocurrency owners with the opportunity to buy a phone for bitcoins.
The Japanese company Sony has filed a patent application to create a blockchain-based educational platform for storing and sharing student performance data.
Today at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus it was announced that the main driver of the economy in 2018 will be the IT sector.
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Internet issues German Klimenko left his post as head of the Internet Development Institute. Now Klimenko will develop the Russian Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (RACIB), taking up the post of head of the supervisory board.
The Winklevoss brothers bought 1% of the world's cryptocurrency supply in 2013 for $11 million. Today, the price of Bitcoin has increased almost a hundredfold.
Cryptocurrency holders can now help children with cancer in a few clicks. The Gift of Life Foundation will set up its stand on December 8 at the blockchain conference in Moscow.
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley explained at a recent press conference that the government does not recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. According to the Economic Times, when asked about the government's plans to regulate cryptocurrency, Jaitley told reporters: "The government is currently formulating an action plan."
Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein said the high volatility of cryptocurrencies meant it was too early for banks to consider them seriously. In an interview with Bloomberg on November 30, Blankfein said: “If the value of a cryptocurrency can rise or fall by 20 percent in just one day, it cannot be called a currency and cannot be perceived as a store of value.”
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