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The US government awards Blockchain projects: $600,000 in grants to six companies that work on blockchain applications.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decided to destinate $3.1m to 29 businesses based in the American area and focused on data analytics, connected devices and blockchain.

Each awarded business will receive $100,000, according to the official press release.

This money came from the so-called program Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) that started back in December 2015.

These US Government Blockchain Awards were assigned to Digital Bazaar, Inc., Respect Network Corporation, Narf Industries LLC, Celerity Government Solutions LLC, BlockCypher and RAM Laboratories LLC.

In April the European Parliament defined the blockchain as the“perfect technology” and aimed at realizing new rules related to the distributed ledger.

Also, several European countries started to accept Bitcoin for public services. Among these there is Switzerland. In fact, Zug was probably chosen because it is the Swiss financial centre that has a good reputation for its low taxes.

In the meantime, the US Postal Service will start studying for the creation of a new digital currencies to be used for their own applications.

Another important news came in May, when Japan decided to officially recognize Bitcoin.

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