Estonian Government Partners with Bitnation to Offer Blockchain Notarization Services to e-Residents

The Estonian e-Residency program in collaboration with BITNATION are launching a new Public Notary using Blockchain technology to e-Residents valid in ‘blockchain jurisdiction’. The World Blockchain media outlet, CoinTelegraph, investigated what is at the roots of this project. According to the announcement, starting December 1, 2015, the e-Residency program and BITNATION new public notary service will be available for Estonian e-residents, “regardless of where they live or do business, they will be able to notarize their marriages, birth certificates, business contracts, and much more on....

Technology allows developers and entrepreneurs to achieve things that were not possible ever before. Just a few years ago, no one would have considered becoming an e-resident of a country, yet Estonia has made it possible. Thanks to a partnership between E-Estonia and BITNATION, notarizing official documents on the blockchain will become possible. Most people active in the world of Bitcoin and digital currencies will have heard of BITNATION before, as this is the world’s first “virtual nation” powered by blockchain technology. Up until now, people were waiting in anticipation to find out....

Factom has announced an initiative with Ancun Zhengxin in China to bring together blockchain or distributed ledger technology with electronic data notarization services in the country. A new partnership sees Factom, a blockchain-based solutions and infrastructure provider come together with Ancun Zhengxin, a Chinese data notarization provider to further blockchain technology for real world applications in the country. As a subsidiary of the Ancun Group, Ancun Zhengxin offers notarization services in over 100 locations spanning across 28 provinces in China. As a part of the agreement,....

One of the earliest blockchain projects, Bitnation, wants to aggregate all of the values of government into a distributed software platform, from identity and contracts to resolution services. Bitnation seeks to promote the idea that government can be a service, “geographically unbound, decentralized and voluntary.” Bitnation founder Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof aims high when it comes to the project at hand: retooling the nation-state. “People tend to take the nation-state model for granted, like it’s something that’s always been there and always will be there,” Tempelhof said, speaking to....

Bitnation is a Governance 2.0 platform powered by distributed blockchain technology. Bitnation aims to provide the same services provided by traditional governments, but in a geographically unbound, decentralized, and voluntary way. The Bitnation crowdsale of the XBNX altcoin, the traded equity stake in the foundation of Bitnation, started today. At the same time, the three most senior members of the Bitnation team (save for the CEO) left Bitnation with an open resignation letter. CNN reached out to the parties involved to find out what happened and why. Bitnation CEO Susanne Tarkowski....