Ukraine to Become Next Country to Go Cashless; Plans National Digital Currency
2016 has been the ‘Year of the Blockchain,’ with corporation after corporation, even nations, touting their interest and ability to use Bitcoin’s underlying advancement in their future business models. Will 2017 be the ‘Year of the National Digital Currency?’ Ukraine looks to enter the cashless society with a plan on creating their own national digital currency based on the Blockchain technology, according to Ukrainian news site Ukrinform. Blockchain, the trend in 2016. Major corporations like IBM, and even nations, embracing the Blockchain technology is what’s happening right now, and it....
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Ukraine’s central bank has unveiled the roadmap for its Cashless Economy scheme, which will see it use the Blockchain as the basis for e-money transmission from 2017. Blockchain Roadmap for Payments, State Registers. The plans, which run until the first quarter of 2018, were revealed by Konstantin Yarmolenko, an advisor to the head of the agency for....
Employees of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation may become the first in the country to get their salaries in digital currency. The National Bank of Ukraine is developing an electronic version of the Ukrainian hryvnia and the ministry is considering the option of using the state-issued coin for remuneration. Government Employees to Be Paid With Digital Hryvnia The Digital Ministry is planning to compensate its employees with Ukraine’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), once the new hryvnia is ready for testing. In a recent interview with online news portal TSN,....