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Sofia hosts largest Blockchain Forum in Central and Eastern Europe

Today and tomorrow Sofia hosts the largest Blockchain forum for Eastern and Central Europe, organized under the auspices of European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel.

The forum gathers more than a thousand leading executives from global companies, politicians, investors, experts, startups, and representatives of academic and financial circles. The aim is a broad discussion on the implementation of successful blockchain technology models that some experts identify as the future of financial system and the formulation of a regulatory, tax and legal framework for their development. Participants can also compete with their own technologies and win a prize of 250,000 euros. The blockchain is a method for storing information in a computer network. It is a continuously growing list of interlinked computer records.



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