Dear friends, we, at WebMoney, wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The days just before these winter holidays are traditionally considered as the time for reflection on the journey made to date, and for sending best wishes. Our wish to you is that you continue to confidently navigate towards your most ambitious goals and aspirations and, of course, that you always have your WebMoney wallets full.

For the past year, we were continuously working on enhancing the convenience of use of the WebMoney electronic wallet, not only for online operations but also in restaurants, cafes and shops. Our WebMoney Keeper mobile applications now have new functions allowing their users to engage in trading at the INDX online exchange, managing a few WMIDs at once and many more.

The WebMoney Events social and business network now has a new section, `Freelancers` and an option for creating personal assistants, bots.

One of the highlights of the year, in the juncture between art and technology, was the ICO for the screening of `Empire V` based on the novel by Victor Pelevin. We are pleased to share with you that the ICO was successfully finalised and, currently, the Bablos tokens can be purchased at the INDX online exchange.

In the past year, we have also supported the Bitcoin Cash hard fork on the 15th of November and credited the relevant volume of notes of the BSV.ECU instrument at INDX.ru to all system participants who were in possession of WMH at the time of the hard fork.

Our fundraising service which was launched at the beginning of 2018 has proved to be very popular among streamers, mainly due to the absence of additional commissions.

Options of adding funds to and withdrawing funds from a WebMoney wallet are now available in dozens of countries where WebMoney has a presence due to newly formed partnerships.

This year we celebrated our 20th birthday and we have no intention of slowing down and can promise you much excitement awaiting ahead, such as the launch of our services in new countries and the delivery of innovative solutions.

On the 20th of November, WebMoney Transfer celebrated its 20th birthday. During these years we have had a long and interesting journey, launched unique services for individual users and for businesses and won the hearts and trust of almost 40 million people around the world.

The first online transaction within the system was made in the distant year 1998, where our story had begun. In that time the possibility of transferring funds and making payments without leaving a cosy home chair seemed unreal. Just imagine how innovative that idea was! We are talking about the period when a personal computer was a luxury beyond the reach of an average household and only a few had knowledge of the Internet. The creation of a modern system of electronic payments in the 90s was comparable to the launch of the first rocket into space.

Almost 20 years into the successful launch, we, without concealing our pride, are looking back on the journey we have made so far. Today WebMoney is not just an electronic wallet but it also comprised of over fifty convenient services. Users of the system have long benefited from using the crowdfunding platform, the INDX Exchange, the loan service, the business automation solutions provided by Capitaller-Shareholder, the social-business network WebMoney Events, the file storage service and many other services.

And yet, we reached another important milestone – we went beyond online payments! In addition to online payments, system users can now make payments with WebMoney in stores, pharmacies, restaurants, cafes and petrol stations. 

Geographical borders never presented a real obstacle for our expansion and we are pleased to announce that we continue to challenge boundaries beyond territorial restrictions and we will add new types of electronic wallets to the existing 10 types in the near future. 

The system participants, who were born on the 20th of November 1998 and hold BL 20 or higher, received a gift from us - 100 WMZ on their wallet. The WMID numbers of the lucky ones start from 035699******, 156168******, 395243******, 654029******, 351421******, 176087******.

Dear friends, thank you for staying with us! Please, remain seated and keep your seatbelts on, the journey of our spaceship within the WebMoney space will continue with many pleasant discoveries awaiting ahead!