German federal parliament

16.12.2020

Members of the german parliament filed an application regarding "Tax administration with distributed ledger technologies", asking the government to change its directive from "Blockchain" to "Distributed Ledger" in order to include other technologies like "IOTA [that] offers some advantages over blockchain in terms of sustainability and resource conservation."

28.02.2019

The german federal parliament mentions IOTA in a "Report on Germany's research, innovation and technological performance 2019", noting that "Important organisations for this are the Web3 Foundation [...], the Energy Web Foundation [...] and the IOTA Foundation with blockchain technology for IoT applications."

01.09.2018

Dominik Schiener meets with Danyal Bayaz, german Minister of the federal parliament and representative for Startup innovation to discuss "Open Data", "eGovernment" and "Blockchain for public value".

21.02.2018

The german federal parliament mentions IOTA in a reply to a "minor inquiry" of members of parliament whether "different cryptocurrencies or tokens, such as Ether or IOTA, to be considered separately from each other, just as foreign currencies of different countries are considered separately from each other?"

31.01.2018

Members of parliament mention IOTA in a "minor inquiry" to the german federal government, stating "Are different cryptocurrencies or tokens, such as Ether or IOTA, to be considered separately from each other, just as foreign currencies of different countries are considered separately from each other?"