On September 7, the main lobbyist of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the Swedish Parliament – Mathias Sundin – will deliver a presentation at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Stockholm. In the cryptocurrency community, the speaker is known as the world’s first politician that ran his political campaign based on bitcoin donations only.

Having started his career as a warehouse worker and teacher, Mathias mastered digital skills and subsequently founded several companies and startups. Alongside entrepreneurship, he got engaged in politics and became a member of the Committee on the Constitution of the Swedish Riksdag (the National Parliament) in 2012.

In two years, Mathias participated in parliamentary elections, becoming the world’s first politician to accept donations in bitcoins only. The main theses of his election program was the suggestion to develop a tax system that promotes fast-growing, innovating companies.

Today Mathias Sundin is known as a keynote cryptocurrency lobbyist in the Swedish Parliament. The mass media call him a “self-professed Bitcoin enthusiast” and “the world’s first political Bitcoin only candidate”.

XLMedia (AIM: XLM), a leading provider of digital performance marketing, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining minority shareholding in Marmar Media Ltd. (“Marmar”) (the “Acquisition”) that the Company does not already own for a total consideration of  approximately US$2.4 million.

The total consideration, payable in cash, is comprised of US$2.25 million, to be paid immediately, and an additional amount representing 46 per cent. of Marmar’s distributable net profits for the period from 1 January 2017 to 31 July 2017 (less an amount representing working capital commitments).

XLM acquired a 54 per cent. stake in Marmar, which specializes in performance based marketing across the app, software and entertainment verticals, in June 2015 and is now acquiring the remaining 46 per cent. via the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Webpals Holdings Ltd., acquiring both of Gindawii Holdings Ltd. and Farmland Holdings Ltd., companies wholly owned by Marmar founders, Mr. Oren Avidor and Mr. Gal Avidor (together, the “Vendors”).

In the year ended 31 December 2016 Marmar generated revenues and profit before tax of US$11.7 million and US$2.5 million respectively. The Acquisition of the remaining 46 per cent. stake in Marmar is expected to enable XLM to further strengthen the Group’s media channel growth, enable the Group to extract additional synergies, run an increased number of campaigns and continue the diversification of the Group’s revenue and customer base.

Online lottery betting operator has made a significant donation to charity aimed at supporting those affected by acquired brain injury.

Online lottery betting operator Multilotto has announced Headway Preston and Chorley as its first UK good cause, awarding the charity with a £10,000 donation.

Multilotto ran a campaign throughout the North West of England looking to find a good cause to support and Headway was eventually chosen from a list of 170 nominations.

Headway offers support to the survivors, families and carers of those affected by brain injury.

9 August 2017, Budapest: The organizers of CEEGC2017 are honored to announce Ms. Mirjana Aćimović who will give a presentation of the Serbian market and the future awaited changes that will shape the online and land based gambling industry. Ms. Aćimović is the President of the first Serbian representative association of gaming industry JAKTA and Chair of EUROMAT’s Social Responsibility in Gaming Committee. She is also Chairman of the Board of Sector for games of chance in Serbian Association of Employers.

The “Balkan Gambling Opportunity” panel is scheduled to be held between 9:30 – 10:15 (Budapest Local Time) on the 19th of September (Day 1) during the second edition of the Central and Eastern European Gaming Conference Budapest. (you can view the full agenda here).

“The possibilities of Serbia to become an attractive gambling market” is the title of Mirjana Aćimović’s presentation and it promises to be among the key discussions about the Balkans region in a whole.

Ms. Acimovic is a Southeast-European expert and has immense knowledge and over 20 years of experience in the gaming sector.

St. John’s, 8th August… The Government of Antigua and Barbuda announces the appointment of Mr. Calvin Ayre as a Special Economic Envoy with responsibility for advising on economic cooperation and commerce between Antigua and Barbuda and other sovereign States where blockchain technology is being utilised.

Mr. Ayre will advise the Government on the effective implementation of new technological developments in cryptocurrency and Bitcoin which have been adopted by leading companies in the United States, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom. He has already invested heavily in Bitcoin blockchain core technology and his e-Com technology processes more Bitcoin transactions than any other platform in the world today.

As it did in offshore banking and Internet Gaming in the 1990s, the government of Antigua and Barbuda anticipates becoming an early leader in the Caribbean to compete in the international community in the provision of a legal platform for world-wide private sector activity utilising blockchain technology.

In addition to the work that his companies have done in research and development of blockchain technology and Bitcoin, Mr. Ayre has a wealth of knowledge in the internet gaming sector having pioneered the development of software support for online gaming, and subsequently establishing his own gaming operations under the popular Bodog brand.