The government-backed program will bring trade and contract data into distributed ledgers.
A new bill from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Energy would triple the price of power for miners, raising fears it could stifle the local mining industry.
Germany's cabinet has passed a national strategy for exploring blockchain tech, while limiting the threat of stablecoins like Facebook's Libra.
The U.K. Department for Work and Pensions is investigating distributed ledger technology as a way to boost its payments systems.
The U.K. government has drawn up an action plan aimed to combat financial crimes that it says will include a new regime for crypto assets.
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has launched an initiative to study the "unique attributes and use-cases" of blockchain tech.
Snowden used bitcoin to buy encrypted services to talk with journalists in 2013.
Rhode Island is looking for RFPs for blockchain projects including innovations in anti-fraud, medical marijuana management, and governmental record-keeping.
With the price of bitcoin surging, the South Korean government has held an inter-agency emergency meeting over the risk for investors.
A 33-year-old Australian IT contractor has been charged after he allegedly mined cryptocurrency on government computer systems.
The Internal Revenue Service is working on its first tax guidance for cryptocurrency since 2014, the agency's commissioner told a lawmaker Monday.
The South Korean military acquisitions agency hopes a blockchain system can boost security and efficiency in defense business operations.
The U.K. Parliament has been presented demos of real-world blockchain applications designed to educate policymakers.
Australia’s government has committed AU$100,000 to support blockchain firms joining Austrade's mission to CoinDesk Consensus in May.
The government of Argentina is set to match investments in local blockchain startups taking part in Binance Labs' incubator program.