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Title: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: komar on January 27, 2014, 07:03:19 PM A popular russian exchange metabank.ru (https://metabank.ru/) closed after russian central bank’s press-release "about virtual currency" (http://www.cbr.ru/press/PR.aspx?file=27012014_1825052.htm).
"Money surrogates issue are forbidden in Russian Federation", press-release says. Russian central bank also warns about "potential involving in terrorism financing". BTC-E reaction: http://dump.bitcheese.net/images/ikofebe/btc-e-reaction.png Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: btbrae on January 27, 2014, 07:08:09 PM This is the real news right now. (The Russian press-release.)
Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: TraderTimm on January 27, 2014, 08:22:55 PM Had a native russian friend check it out - this is a ban, folks.
But I'm sure reddit and elsewhere will say "this is actually good news". Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: SirWilliam on January 27, 2014, 08:28:40 PM Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported ::)
Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: komar on January 27, 2014, 09:02:46 PM Had a native russian friend check it out - this is a ban, folks. This is not a new ban. "Money surrogates" was banned in Russian since nobody remembers when. This is just a warning from russian central bank.But I'm sure reddit and elsewhere will say "this is actually good news". Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: komar on January 27, 2014, 09:06:00 PM Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported ::) BTC-E (http://btc-e.com) is an exchange from russian developers and it's one of two biggest stock exchanges (http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/) in the world.Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: notthematrix on January 27, 2014, 09:14:32 PM Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported ::) BTC-E (http://btc-e.com) is an exchange from russian developers and it's one of two biggest stock exchanges (http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/) in the world.btc-e is located ouside russia. (bulgaria) so no problems for btc-e , this is why is great bitcoin is decentralized. Title: Re: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note Post by: manfred on January 27, 2014, 09:21:38 PM Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported ::) BTC-E (http://btc-e.com) is an exchange from russian developers and it's one of two biggest stock exchanges (http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/) in the world.Russian Ruble is collapsing so possible escape routes have to be closed to some extend before floodgates open |
