Star Jets International LLC now accepts bitcoin payments for private jet flights. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. Customers who use Star Jets get to leverage all the advantages of using a corporate jet, according to an Econotimes article.  Furthermore, customers have access to over 5,000 jets domestically and roughly 15,000 across the globe. The company allowing bitcoin transactions may now open up a new realm of possibilities for the company along with a new customer base.

October 17, Bitcoin.com published a contradictory statement, which stated that it was Bitcoin Cash that should be called bitcoin. In response, leading industry experts, including the maker of lightcore, Charlie Lee (Charlie Lee), criticized such attempts. Bitcoin Cash was launched in early August from hard fork bitcoin, which supported several major mining pools, including ViaBTC and Bitmain. Since then, the support and demand for Bitcoin Cash has decreased significantly, which is noticeable in terms of the hash and market capitalization of the crypto currency.

The development of the law on the use of distributed registry technology will allow banks to significantly reduce costs, said the founder of Blockchain.ru Dmitry Matsuk. "In such areas as processing of counter transactions, structuring of products, account management, audit and financial control, the savings can reach up to 60-75%, and this is only a small part where a blockchain can be used. Therefore, the potential total savings on operating activities will be about 50%, which can be brought up to 80% with the development of technology and the transfer of all processes to the blockchain, "he said.

This year, Russian projects attracted $ 293 million through ICO, which is more than double the amount of venture capital investment in 2016. Nevertheless, ICO will not be able to replace venture investments, experts believe. The volume of the ICO market (Initial Coin Offering) in Russia since early 2017 was about $ 293 million, the general director of Skolkovo-Venture Investments, Vasily Belov, said at the Open Innovations forum. Thus, the volume of funds attracted by Russian companies with the help of ICO more than doubled the volume of venture investments in the country by the end of 2016, the size of which was $ 128 million, Belov said. "For an incomplete year, the volume of investments attracted in ICO exceeded the volumes of the classical venture market," he said.

The deputy director of the Philippines Central Bank has highlighted the advantages of using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin after releasing regulations for the industry earlier this year. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippine central bank, published regulations for bitcoin exchanges earlier this year. In a statement at the time, the central bank said it “recognizes that virtual currency systems have the potential to revolutionize delivery of financial services particularly for payments and remittance, in view of their ability to provide faster and more economical transfer of funds, both domestic and international, and may further support financial inclusion.”

According to analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, brokerage companies that offer products in the field of crypto currency can have a big impact on the global market. In the report of the bank entitled "Implementation of Crypto-Currency - what are they good for?", Analysts are considering the potential of Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP, as well as the main aspects of the market and open functioning network of detachment. It is noteworthy that the report touches on possible factors that could affect the future progress of the crypto-currency market, including financial products based on this technology.

The central bank of Singapore said that consulting giant Accenture will develop a prototype solution for inter-bank settlements based on distributed registry technology (DLT). Earlier this month, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which acts as the central bank of the country and is the main financial regulator, demonstrated the successful development of three different models of blockchains for decentralized interbank payments and settlements. Prototypes were developed using three separate platforms, in particular R3 Corda, Hyperledger Fabric, which are open-source projects and private blockchain Quorum from JP Morgan Chase based on Etherium. This was the second stage of the Ubin project, the central bank's initiative to develop and release digital tokens of the Singapore dollar on the private blockchain of the Etherium. The consortium, which is working on the Ubin project, includes participants from 11 financial institutions and 5 technology companies.

The largest bank consortium in the US, , is launching a new platform for interbank payments, built on the basis of a blockchain. The Interbank Information Network (IIN) will be launched with the participation of two other banks - the Royal Bank of Canada and the Australian and New Zealand banking group and is built on Quorum, the corporate blockchain network JPMorgan based on the Etherium, which was first introduced last fall. It is expected that during the coming months other participating banks will join this initiative.

St. Julian’s will host the event for all those interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies in terms of business - Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Malta. (December 7, 2017). Its participants include entrepreneurs, investors, consultants and IT specialists working with blockchain and digital currencies. The event will be attended by representatives of the Government of Malta. At the beginning of the event, they will make a welcoming speech. Speakers of the conference are analysts of the cryptocurrency markets; financial and legal experts; blockchain developers; representatives of startups and large companies that use blockchain technology; cryptocurrency and venture investors.

Crypto Affiliate Conference 2017 will be a crucial stepping stone for the whole digital marketing community in the presently changing environment. The participants will have a chance to introduce their Crypto products to a wide array of affiliates and advertisers in order to work out the best marketing strategies on the spot and engage in long-lasting beneficial partnerships. There will also be a plethora of speakers raising important crypto related questions to listen to.