The Slovenian town of Kranj has inaugurated one of the world's first monuments honouring crypto currencies and block chain technology as a display of the country's openness to new technologies. "We're sending a message to the world that emphasises our openness to digitisation, susceptibility to the use of new technologies and hospitality towards progressive thinking," the Kranj municipality, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of capital Ljubljana, said in a statement.
The construction of the monument - placed in a roundabout at Kranj's city centre - was financed by two blockchain technology companies, including Luxembourg-based bitcoin-exchange Bitstamp. At the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, Kranj's mayor Bostjan Trilar added that the town of some 37,000 inhabitants "is tightly connected to modern technology companies, some of them have been successful precisely with the blockchain technology and we thought it was right to honour them."
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