Yes, the defenders of Bakhmut also note that among the participants in the assault squads from Russia, there were also former female prisoners. Given Russia's serious demographic problem, which even Putin recently described as one of the country's biggest problems due to its drastic population decline, sending women to certain death for Putin's imperial ambitions is, at the very least, very strange. Or is the situation already so hopeless in Russia? I think the situation is only hopeless for Putin, who actually doesn’t give a damn about his citizens, but is there really not a single sane person in Russia who can prevent this? Although Russia is now entirely a country of the absurd.

Private and commercial fiat-backed stablecoins pose a hidden danger to the financial system of states. Any abuse with their release and use will harm the state, and if their market capitalization is several tens of billions of dollars, this will affect the global financial system as a whole. Therefore, it is not surprising that states will strictly regulate, and even prohibit the circulation of such stablecoins. And it is hardly surprising that Japan, which was among the first to legalize cryptocurrencies back in 2017, has a rather negative attitude towards stablecoins.

In Russia, various officials periodically express conflicting opinions about the prospects for the legalization of cryptocurrency in this country. Only the actions of the State Duma of Russia and the Central Bank of this country are clearly aimed at the complete prohibition of the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment. Today, the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment is completely prohibited in Russia, and I do not see any changes for the better in relation to cryptocurrency in the foreseeable future in Russia. On the contrary, given the defeat of the Russian army in the war against Ukraine, the increase in spending on the war, the growing budget deficit, the imposition of additional taxes on businesses and citizens, Russia will try to use any means to prevent the flight of capital from the country. Therefore, they are unlikely to legalize cryptocurrency there.

Russia has already tried to declare "war" on the US dollar, especially in the period after the introduction of strong sanctions in the financial sector of the economy. But this further aggravated the deplorable financial situation of the Russian Federation. The transition to rupees in trade with India brought huge losses to Russian oilmen.

As a result of trade with India, Russian oil exporters received large sums of rupees, which, as it turned out, no one needed. Their oilmen are forced to sell at a discount of as much as 10% in order to get at least some revenue.

However, the Kremlin plans to continue to conduct such experiments and instructed Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak to transfer oil trade to Russian rubles and Chinese yuan. Now Indians need somewhere to get rubles or yuan instead of rupees! This is despite the fact that India has a negative trade balance with China and the Russian Federation and has no extra rubles and yuan.
It seems that India may simply refuse to buy Russian oil. The Kremlin, following Europe, will lose another major buyer of its energy resources.

Such calculations are generally incorrect, since gold and bitcoin are incomparable things. They are so different from each other that we can say that they are absolutely opposite, except for the high price. There are a lot of things in the world that are less than 21 million, but this does not mean that they can be more valuable than bitcoin or gold.
The price of bitcoin is determined solely by the ratio of supply and demand. It depends only on these indicators how high it will rise in price and nothing else.

The OP in this thread only pointed out that Russia is close to advancing legislation on the use of cryptocurrencies in international trade. As far as I know, Russia has never legalized cryptocurrency in international trade or in other areas of human activity. That is, there is practically nothing to discuss now. Russia was and is a country where there is actually a complete ban on the use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment, and the situation with respect to cryptocurrency is unlikely to change. They are now panickingly taking all possible measures to eliminate capital flight from the country, and therefore they are unlikely to legalize cryptocurrency.

All participants in the cryptocurrency market live on the territory of a state and are forced to live according to its established norms. Also, probably, no one doubts that almost all exchanges sooner or later will fall under the influence and regulation of states. Therefore, a certain part has already come to terms with this and enjoys a certain protection when using centralized exchanges. Centralization and decentralization will exist together for a long time to come.

Your rumors are incorrect. Now on the Internet in the public domain there are many appeals from groups of mobilized Russians and even entire units who complain that they did not undergo any training and do not know how to shoot, but ended up on the front line and they are being driven to storm the Ukrainian fortifications. They were allegedly told that they would maintain order in the rear of the occupied territories, but they deceived them. There are also numerous statements about this by the wives and mothers of the mobilized.
But the result of the impending offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will put an end to this dispute. If everything is so good in Russian soldiers, they should not retreat in panic from the occupied territories of Ukraine next month, right?

Russia has driven itself into a dead end, from which it will have to get out for years, and maybe decades. Because of the attack on Ukraine and the blackmailing of European countries with the reduction of oil and gas supplies, Russia itself found itself in a trap.
In the first quarter of this year, Gazprom supplied only 6 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe, while in the same period last year this figure amounted to 62 billion cubic meters. Over the past year, the share of Russian "blue fuel" in the European market has decreased from 45% to 7.5%.

The leadership of this Russian company threatened Europe that the price of gas in winter could reach $4,000 per thousand cubic meters. Russian President Vladimir Putin also frightened the Europeans with high gas prices. However, in the last two months, gas in Europe has been trading at $460-570 per 1,000 cubic meters (€40-50/MWh), which has led to lower electricity prices. This was due to the influx of LNG, accelerating the transition to renewable energy and improving energy efficiency.

At the same time, after losing the European market, Russia is forced to sell gas to China at huge discounts. For example, in the second quarter of 2022, gas was sold to the Chinese side at $250 per thousand cubic meters, while fuel cost about $1,000 on European exchanges.

Ethereum was, is and will be the leader of altcoins for a long time. It has a good team and many useful features. Some coins, including BNB, simply copy the functions of ethereum, improving them a little. Now ethereum continues to be updated and improved, and this inspires confidence that this coin will be ahead of all altcoins for a long time to come.

Do not underestimate the ability of states to regulate and ban the circulation of cryptocurrencies. In China, as far as I know, the ban on the use of cryptocurrencies is not formalized by the regulations of the government or the legislature. It was at the level of the Central Bank of China - the People's Bank of China, and this is not the same thing. Therefore, where the banking system cannot control the situation with cryptocurrency, the Chinese are relatively easy to bypass such a ban.
As long as the G20 countries adhere to the previous decision that cryptocurrencies do not pose a threat to global financial stability, there is no need to fear serious bans on cryptocurrencies.

Russia as a state and Russians as a nation are now rapidly sliding into an abyss with a long period of economic decline, isolation from the outside world, a drop in living standards, which before that was at a minimum level compared to European countries, and most importantly, the degradation of the psyche and morality.

A recently captured Wagnerian told how, on the orders of his command, he, along with others, cleared the territory in Bakhmut, killing all the local residents, including the elderly, women and children. How the five-year-old girl squealed, whom he finished off with a shot in the head. How he destroyed the captured Ukrainians along with the Russian mobilized, who refused to storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, throwing grenades into the room where they were, and then poured petrol over the still alive and set them on fire. The world was already horrified by the atrocities that the Russians are perpetrating in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Moreover, these are territories with a Russian-speaking population, which they allegedly came to liberate from the mythical Nazis, whom no one had even seen in their eyes.
Recently, the network was agitated by a video of a Ukrainian prisoner of war being cut off the head with an ordinary knife, which was deliberately distributed on social networks. The intent is twofold: partly to intimidate the Ukrainians, and partly to provoke a response of anger in them so that the Russians avoid captivity.

Both Russians and Ukrainians will have to live with this, and therefore the gap between these peoples is growing and expanding.

If Russia has received any material benefit from the war it has unleashed with Ukraine, then it is temporary. Recently, I saw a figure in the news that only 9 percent of foreign enterprises withdrew their assets from Russia. Russia blackmails and threatens them in every possible way, threatening to nationalize their property if they try to leave the country. Many of the foreign enterprises are ready to take certain losses in order to leave Russia, but it is difficult to sell their property there. As a result, Russia will be recognized as an unreliable partner for doing business, and foreign business will gradually leave Russia.

Earlier, Russia refused to return several hundred civilian aircraft that were leased from other states. But they can only be operated in Russia, and their maintenance is impossible due to the lack of imported components. Therefore, there are more and more accidents and plane crashes, and Russian planes are being arrested in order to compensate for losses. After a short period of time, the Russian air fleet will be practically destroyed.

The transition to a monetary system with a more limited supply for states is absolutely unacceptable. It is impossible to try to transfer the principles of operation of the cryptocurrency to the fiat system of states. The amount of fiat in the state should be generally equal to the amount of material assets that can be in circulation on the territory of the state. Any deviation causes negative consequences for the economy of states.
The transition to the fiat of another state or to cryptocurrency also negatively affects the economy of the state.

Ukraine has not lost its territories for a long time, and with some exceptions, it is only returning back. In practice, this happened two months after the Russian attack, when the central and northern regions of Ukraine were liberated. In any case, after the mobilization of more than 300 thousand people in Russia in September and the Russian winter offensive, the Ukrainians did not lose their territory.

  The fighting in Bakhmut takes place with varying success, since the Russians make more than a hundred attacks per day, incurring colossal losses. In recent days, the center of Bakhmut, the railway station, the railway was again recaptured from the Russians, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are successfully counterattacking. Both roads leading to Bakhmut are also under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian army does not retreat in any sector of the front. This information is incorrect. Moreover, except for Bakhmut and Avdiivka, as well as at Svatovo and Kremennaya, the Russians do not attack anywhere else and go on the defensive, since they do not have enough troops or equipment to attack.

Now in Ukraine, the formation of the so-called "Offensive Guard" of about 60-70 thousand exclusively volunteers with experience in combat operations or law enforcement agencies is nearing completion. They will be the shock fist of the spring offensive. In a month or a month and a half, we will see how the Russians will flee in panic from the south and east of Ukraine. It's not long now.

Rumors about the need to get rid of the dollar are deliberately spread. This is nothing more than political propaganda that has nothing to do with reality. For the first time, a Chinese journalist spoke on this topic, and it was gladly picked up by opponents and competitors of the United States. All fiat currencies are now experiencing difficulties and inflation after the coronavirus pandemic and the intensification of various cataclysms in the world, including artificial ones, such as wars. The dollar may weaken a little, but this does not mean that it will lose its role as a world reserve currency.

It is hardly worth agreeing with your opinion. Almost the entire combat-ready army of Russia perished on the territory of Ukraine. That is, the military experience of the Russians was very short-term. In Russia, they continue to mobilize those who do not have combat experience into the army, and they are almost immediately thrown into the assault on the fortified positions of the Ukrainians, where they die ingloriously. Now the opinion is being expressed that two or three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may well be on Moscow and capture it. After all, there are no longer any significant military formations in Russia itself. That is why the Kremlin is now demanding a truce through the mouths of Lukashenka, Orban and other assistants.
China, with its population of almost one and a half billion people, can easily capture the whole of Russia without any problems. But China has the opportunity to do this not by military means, but by purely economic means. Apparently, the bet is already being made on this option.

As Wikipedia says: a unitary state is a form of government in which the state does not include any state entities with elements of sovereignty, and its constituent administrative-territorial units are subordinate to single central authorities.
 
This form of government does not at all contradict the multinationality in this state. Now almost any state is multinational, because in open civilized states, thanks to the current technical progress, people of all races and nationalities move freely. And this does not mean at all that the representatives of all nations in each state must necessarily have separate elements of their sovereignty.

Although Russia is a federation according to the Constitution, in fact it is more suitable for the classification of a unitary state, since the nations and nationalities representing it do not have any real rights. Moreover, now Russia is more like a monarchy, which is single-handedly ruled by the monarch - Putin. He makes sole important decisions, and all other state democratic institutions are actually subordinate to him. The central government rests on repressive law enforcement agencies that suppress any dissent. So, in fact, only Putin and several other persons close to him made the decision to invade Ukraine militarily. And to go out into the streets with slogans for peace and against war, for this any citizen faces a long prison term.

But failures in the war against Ukraine inevitably cause centrifugal tendencies, and it is precisely this that Russia should be afraid of in the near future.

If everything was good with the economy in Russia, then it would use its own ruble in trade relations with other states. But since the Russian ruble has become toxic and no one needs it, Russia has to support the economies of other countries using their national currencies. But Russia does not use the dollar or the euro, not because it does not want to, but because the imposed sanctions and the disconnection of its banking system from the international payment system SWIFT do not allow it to do so.
It is no coincidence that Russia is now demanding to reconnect Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system, in exchange for the extension of the "grain agreement" for the export of agricultural products from the ports of Ukraine.

If we do not take climate change and its negative effects very seriously and take the most decisive steps, then humanity will shrink and die out at a rapid pace. It will no longer be up to finance and not to cryptocurrency. Natural disasters will intensify: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fires and floods, storms, tsunamis and other natural phenomena will intensify and become commonplace. Part of the continents around the planet will go under water. Governments will not be able to oppose these phenomena. Therefore, there is no need to calculate how expensive it will be for us to switch to alternative energy sources. All this is a trifle compared to what nature can show us in the near future.