Blockchain technology is a highly promising concept that fosters security and anonymity. It lies at the core of things like bitcoin. One of the issues with blockchain has been a lack of certain standardization that allows for it to be scalable and universalized. To that end the International Standards Organization has set out to study what an international blockchain standard might look like.

It should, therefore, concern everyone that the Russian FSB, successor to the KGB, is an active participant in the ISO standard setting. The original article is in Russian, but here is the opening of the article in English, according to Google Translate: