I am surprised they didn’t do the SWIFT ban on Russian since they all did the sanctions and they also forbid to do business with many Russian banks.

Why do they refuse to ban SWIFT exactly? They are afraid some companies will have trouble sending and receiving money from banks? But aren’t they sanctioned anyways from doing business with Russia anyways. This is what I don’t understand.

I hope you stay safe. Hope this conflict ends soon.

The United States, Europe and other countries have already imposed serious economic sanctions against the Putin regime and against Russia in general. Including Russia was forbidden to make payments in dollars, euros, yen, pounds. The banking system will largely be paralyzed without being disconnected from SWIFT, although this possibility is still under discussion. So far, such a shutdown is opposed by Germany, Hungary, Italy and Cyprus.
In addition, it is predicted that by the time Russia sets up its internal payment system, it will already be bankrupt.
Now there is information that China refuses to buy oil from Russia because of the uncertainty with payments and delivery of oil. In connection with the adopted sanctions, this also awaits Russia for all other goods. Gas and oil, on the contrary, may fall in price.

Russia will probably build its own financial system independent of SWIFT. As long as it has its own reserves of Gold and other scarce commodities/assets, sanctions will have little to no impact over the Russian economy. By stripping Russia out of the SWIFT system, the USD will continue to lose traction as the world's reserve currency. I have a feeling countries will begin to separate themselves from the US Dollar slowly as time goes by. All of these actions will directly affect the American economy in ways that were never imagined before.

Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, things are going to get worse. Oil prices will rise, leading to a huge blow over the global economy. Russia is one of the major producers of oil, so it doesn't have to worry about this. Who knows what will happen in the next days with rising tensions between the West and Russia? Just my opinion

It's because Putin's ego, and he is willing to put everything in line here just to win the war. As someone said, no one really wins here, it's brother to brother and yet Putin didn't think about the consequences. For him Ukraine should be annex by Russia and they don't want NATO or any other countries in the West ally with Ukraine. US and EU quickly imposes sanctions against the country in response to his attacks. As for the stock markets, yeah, it's obviously any country that is involve will suffer.

Thank you for busting the FUD that are being spread around the world.    Can you give us constant updates on the things happening there and how your government are dealing with this? Do you see any foreign troops entering your country... or are this just your own army fighting by themselves?

I hope the rest of the world will do anything in their power to prevent a full scale war, because there are no winners in a war. Also, please give us a bit of background on why Russia is so focused on invading the Ukraine?

May God be with you in these terrible times.   

This sounds more like a joke than a question
Last war United States won, or was part of the winning side, has been World War II that ended in 1945 (77 years ago). Ever since then US has not faced any actual military force and any other smaller conflict with armed groups US faced they lost miserably. The latest being the war against Taliban that ended with a great escape and a donation of $100 billion worth of weapons and military equipment to Taliban to buy safe passage out of Afghanistan.
Going to war with an actual adversary will not only destroy US military but also US and EU economy. That's why it is never going to happen.

I keep repeating this in all similar topics but this is not the first time Russia has taken part of Ukraine. Google Crimea and 2014 and see how people were asking the same question back then and how nobody could do anything about it. It won't be any different this time either.

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What happens to bitcoin is unpredictable. Bitcoin is a great way to store value and is a replacement for traditional impossible to carry ways such as gold. It is not unreasonable to think people would largely start selling everything they have and start buying bitcoin to escape the crashing economy.

The US authority is collecting a list of measures, this is what we can define it sanction to impose and a normal procedure to force and an ordinary methodology to prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine. I doubt Putin will care, if he is determined to invade. He won't care about bloodshed nor any financial difficulties. I think invasion isn't well for any country. Putin should avoid any fight. We should stand up, stop all this pointless sanctions, and start normal dialogue more preferred choice over militarization.

It's almost as if they are trying to compete against Ukraine at this point on who's going to be the country wherein Eastern Russia can do their business with when it comes to cryptocurrencies. Russia has a somewhat huge population of cryptocurrency users, and knowing the economic situations of the said country, it really is a smart move for them to just give in and accept that crypto is inevitable, and that people will soon catch up to it and that they just have to build and plan ahead before the massive surge.

I can't say that money and happiness are unrelated in any way. They are quite related. Because having no money or a really few amount of money equals to being unhappy to me. Maybe this is different for many people also. But I can't be content about my life unless I have enough money to be able to get something I like. I don't mean that I must be a really rich person. I mean that I should be able to afford the things I like.

Kamala Harris (US Vice President) making some statement on the Russia and Ukraine problem said US and her aligns will impose unprecedented economic sanction on Russia if they continue to evade or attack Ukraine. So I'm wondering what kind of unprecedented economic sanction can be given to Russia if they continue to evade Ukraine.

Cryptocurrency is popular in Russia and Ukraine not because of cheap electricity, but because of the fact that the population has a total distrust of the banking system and the fact that the population does not want to pay taxes (by the way, the population cannot be blamed for this, only the government is to blame). As for the hostilities...stop watching the propaganda news, as there is not a single chance that a military conflict will break out between Ukraine and Russia.

Coexistence is the way that the banks and cryptocurrency will interact and no one will be supreme but satisfying the gaps of each other like the proposal so far that the end users will be able to transact money from their bank account to either fiat or cryptocurrency and that of course is freedom through blockchain. No amount of pressure would erase the blockchain adoption and traditional banks will have to adapt to the new technology.

I don't think Russia is planning to ban cryptocurrency, what I heard was they are planning to regulate cryptocurrency in the country. Regulating cryptocurrency is not as bad as banning it because people will still be free to use it with policies backing it up. Russia is a powerful country and I don't think they are ready to ban bitcoin when their counterpart never stand against it.

Maybe OP needs to do some research before trying to pass a wrong info to people who are not aware of the regulation of crypto in Russian.

If I understand correctly, mining is not currently banned in Russia, so it is not clear what exactly they want to legalise? It seems that the government wants to make private small farms stay in the shadows, it will be beneficial for the big miners, which are likely to be owned by those close to the government.

Yes likely, they've put the intellectual rights of it on sale.

Facebook reportedly ditches Diem stablecoin with asset sale

It has to get its return from selling it and whoever takes it should have to continue its development. I don't think that there's a need to worry about this project is on sale.

IIRC, FB is doing something bigger such as a payment method in Brazil. I forgot the details about that one which is like pilot testing that they've started only there.

Then let us wait for that 10 years and see whether there will indeed be a first successful hack on Bitcoin. But not only had this issue already been responded to by developers, if at least a decade is needed for that hack attempt to possibly go successful, then that decade could probably be more than enough time for Bitcoin developers to somehow improve network and implement upgrades to resist what quantum computers could be possibly do.