Russia's Largest Social Network Vkontakte Embraces Bitcoin
This year, at Riga’s International Economic Forum, CoinTelegraph had the chance to catch up with Yuri Ivanov, Head of Partner Relations at Russia’s largest and most popular social network, Vkontakte (VK.com). As of January 2014, VK.com had at least 239 million accounts. VK is ranked 8th (as of August 1, 2014) in Alexa's global Top 500 sites and is the 2nd most visited website in Russia, after Yandex. Yuri has more than 10 years of experience in IT sphere and has a background in managing development projects and deploying information systems for some of the largest companies across the....
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The leading Russian social media platform, Vkontakte, intends to utilize blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the company’s Technical Director Alexander Tobol unveiled in a recent interview with Vesti.
Both will become part of....
BlockTrail homepage. One of Russia's newly minted technology tycoons has unveiled his first foray into the bitcoin world, a bitcoin blockchain visualiser called BlockTrail, that opened for public access today. Tech magnate Lev Leviev is co-founder of VKontakte, Russia's largest social network, which has 266 million user accounts and more active daily users than Facebook in the country. He sold his stake in VKontakte last year in a deal that, together with larger chunk of equity from another investor, was valued at more than $1bn. With the proceeds of the sale in hand, Leviev turned his....
Pavel Durov, former CEO of Russia’s social networking site VKontakte, has openly decried the treatment of cryptocurrencies by the country’s authorities. Durov was fired from his position on 21 April, placing the network “under the ‘full control’ of Kremlin insiders,” The Moscow Times reported. The implications behind the dismissal would appear to have incensed Durov, who subsequently spoke to BTC Russia about national currencies allowing governments to “cause the most pain to the poor and at the same time create the most inconspicuous taxation, constantly devaluing monthly salaries”. His....
The Central Bank of Russia has officially requested Yandex, the largest Internet company in Russia, to disallow Alexei Navalny, a Russian lawyer and financial activist who is running a presidential campaign in 2018, from raising funds using the Yandex payment application. Yandex N.V. operates the largest search engine and provides the most widely used financial service in Russia. It controls over 60 percent of the Internet market share and serves over 55 mln active users. Its financial application is used by the general Russian consumer base to process basic payments, from salaries to....
Sberbank, Russia's largest bank in net assets intends to join the R3-led international blockchain consortium, according to reports. As reported by Russian news publication Kommersant, Sberbank, Russia's biggest bank with over three times the net assets over its closest competitor is keen on joining the global consortium of 30 banks and financial institutions led by New York-based R3. Speaking to be publication, Sberbank's First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Leve Khasis, confirmed the bank is keeping a close eye on the evolution of blockchain technology. He added the bank is....