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Title: [2017-01-12]Russia’s Relationship with Bitcoin May See Brighter Days Ahead
Post by: Slim2017 on January 16, 2017, 01:16:15 AM
The state of bitcoin’s legality in Russia has been shaky over the past couple of years. Reports of bitcoin bans, jail sentences for holding cryptocurrencies, and other regulatory policy headlines have spread like wildfire. Throughout many of these stories Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister, Alexey Moiseev, has often shared very bi-polar messages concerning the cryptocurrency.


You can read the full article here: https://news.bitcoin.com/russias-relationship-bitcoin-brighter-days-ahead/


Title: Re: [2017-01-12]Russia’s Relationship with Bitcoin May See Brighter Days Ahead
Post by: panju1 on January 16, 2017, 01:56:45 AM
The finance minister has stated that he does not view Bitcoin as a threat right now. It will be meaningless to draw positive conclusions from that. It would only mean that they are not going to launch a crackdown overnight.