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In November 2017, after the release of the code on the GitHub platform, it became known about the development of the Polkadot network protocol, which was created by scientific professor Robert Habermeier, the creator of Ethereum and other projects Gavin Wood and the technical director of the Web3 Foundation project Peter Chaban.

As a result of the analysis of the London-based analytical company Elliptic, about 4.5% of all bitcoin mining falls on Iran. Despite these figures, the situation with cryptocurrencies in the country is quite controversial.

For the first time in the world, the state has accepted Bitcoin as a payment method. This bill was adopted in a small country in terms of population – El Salvador.

First Deputy head of the National Bank of the country Ekaterina Rozhkova explained the NBU's position on cryptocurrencies.

What updates have been made? Automated mode of exchanging cryptocurrencies to replace the manual mode – acceptance and payments to cards in hryvnia are now automatic.

Small mining farms have some advantages over industrial ones.

Cryptocurrency exchange Thodex announced a temporary suspension of activities, citing “abnormal movements of funds” in its accounts as the reason.

In Ukraine, they offered to declare the bitcoin addresses of officials. Such a proposal was received by the head of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Oleksandr Novikov from the organisations Virtual Assets of Ukraine and Blockchain4Ukraine.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada declared cryptocurrencies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the digital money, in the amount of $252 million, was included in the declaration by Deputy Urbansky.