Великая Эпоха
In recent times, bitcoin is going through hard times. The Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit organization responsible for the development and promotion of bitcoin, recently announced its insolvency. That organization is on the verge of bankruptcy and has lost public confidence, said at the official online forum one of the members of the Board./epochtimes.ru/
members of the Bitcoin Foundation offered to close the organization and to establish a Foundation with the new rules, because the past is the name can not cause trust.
"The Bitcoin Foundation is in fact bankrupt. This situation arose because of excessive spending and reckless decisions in the past two years. Almost all funds of the organization were spent back in November of last year," said Oliver Janssens, a new member of the Board, who took the post in March 2015.
Bitcoin Foundation has reduced about 90% of its staff and Executive Director Patrick mark will leave the post within 2 weeks. The organization hid the owl unenviable position that you have entered in the bewilderment of many interested people.
The Bitcoin Foundation was created in September 2012 by the design of another Fund of the Linux Foundation with the purpose of providing uniform standards and the protection of cryptocurrency. The Fund has received donations from companies interested in using Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Foundation several times been the target of discontent. One of the founders of the organization Charlie Shrem in 2014 received the charge of fraud in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin was created to simplify the mechanisms of payment worldwide. Today, many banks and governments can no longer ignore its existence. Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that does not belong to any state. This virtual money without banks and are used within their system.
The term bitcoin is formed from the bit, a unit of information) and coin .
The functioning and protection of bitcoin were made possible thanks to cryptographic encryption. Because of this, bitcoins are often referred to as cryptocurrency. One of the features of bitcoin is a decentralized storage of data of all transactions. They can be seen from the launch of the system in 2009.
In Russia, the circulation of bitcoin is limited. The Russian Central Bank fears "speculative" risks and warns that Russian banks and financial institutions are not required to exchange the virtual currency for goods or real money. It will be seen as "questionable" operation. According to the law on counteraction of legalization of incomes received by criminal way, and terrorism financing, cash-out and operations with bitcoins raise suspicion.