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Title: [2016-02-05]Putin Advisor: Accepting Bitcoin Payments in Russia is a Crime Post by: bizerinm on February 05, 2016, 07:36:57 PM An advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly spoken out about bitcoin, going as far to suggest that taking payments in the digital currency is a criminal act.
Recently appointed Internet advisor German Klimenko told Russian-language online news service Lenta.ru that the acceptance of bitcoin payments constitutes a crime. According to a translation by Russian bitcoin news site ForkLog, Klimenko told Lenta.ru: Quote Bitcoin is not the first one, there are other settlement means. Accepting bitcoin as a payment for anything is unacceptable because it is a crime http://www.coindesk.com/receiving-bitcoin-payments-is-a-crime-says-russian-presidential-advisor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29 (http://www.coindesk.com/receiving-bitcoin-payments-is-a-crime-says-russian-presidential-advisor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29) Title: Re: [2016-02-05]Putin Advisor: Accepting Bitcoin Payments in Russia is a Crime Post by: a7mos on February 05, 2016, 09:26:42 PM Why accepting bitcoin would be a crime ?! It is a digital money not a kind of drugs or an illegal thing
I believe that by time those politics will face the real that they can not stop people from using BTC even with labeling it as an act of crime |