All ‘BitRouble’ Domains Scooped Up for Millions by Russian Payment Service Provider Qiwi
Russian payment service provider Qiwi has registered all domain names such as bitrouble.com, bitrouble.org, bitru.rf, and bitrub.li, according to the Russian newspaper “Kommersant.” This is good news for cybersquatters who may earn millions of rubles on domains containing a semblance to “BitRouble.” One such domain is "bitrubl.rf" whose price may reach 1 million Rubles, according to domain names investor Pavel Gross-Dneprov. Qiwi has also tried to register similar domain names in .ru and .rf. “However, it turned out that they are already registered,” the article continues. “And the company....
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Having a partner with close ties to national regulators and policymakers will be beneficial to the R3 consortium. The R3 blockchain consortium continues to welcome new members all year long. In a rather surprising turn of events, Russian payment provider QIWI joined the team. This is somewhat strange, as it appeared the company was in talks with the Russian government to develop new blockchain solutions. R3 and QiWI will elaborate on design and possible application of distributed ledgers. A partnership between Russia’s primary payment provider and the R3 blockchain consortium is an....
The leading Russian payments service provider QIWI is putting together a consortium of banks to explore blockchain technology. Russia may soon have its own consortium of banks led by the country’s leading payment services provider QIWI. It is no secret that Russia has mixed feelings about Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Call it paranoia or being extra cautious, the country has gone far enough to make exchanging bitcoin to ruble a crime. According to a recent legislation passed by the country’s finance ministry, anyone caught converting bitcoin to the country’s legal tender can face....
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