The U.S. Senate confirmed former Bitfury Chief Legal Officer Jonathan Gould as the Director of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the appointment will be submitted to President Donald Trump for final approval. Bitfury was founded in Russia in 2011. In its early days, it was an ASIC Bitcoin mining chip R&D team, and later transformed into a blockchain basic data service.

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