[2016-02-06] Putin’s Counselor: Accepting Bitcoin Payments Unacceptable, a Crime

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Newly appointed counsel and advisor on the internet German Klimenko, has reportedly claimed that accepting bitcoin as a payment instead of Russian rubles, is unacceptable and is a crime.

The seemingly matter-of-fact comments was made in an interview with Russian online news publication Lenta.ru.

The comments from the interview were translated and revealed by Russian bitcoin news outlet Forklog. An excerpt from the interview had Klimenko say:

Bitcoin is not the first one, there are other settlement means. Accepting bitcoin as a payment for anything is inacceptable because it is a crime.

[This is] just because payments within the Russian Federation are accepted in rubles.
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/putins-counselor-accepting-bitcoin-payments-unacceptable-crime/

[wenquan]

The currency payment within the territory of the Russian federation is accepted, can you as an international currency? I would like to one day can do it! Football association in Canada this time pay in currency for the first time in history is a progress!

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I like this in the article : Klimenko also echoed what is now becoming a consensus among authorities in Russia in that bitcoin or ‘money surrogates’ can be a threat to the economy.

It shows that they are afraid of the potential of Bitcoin. And I can't really blame them as Bitcoin can be a threat to any country as people are sick and tired of the current financial industry and the shitty policies of the governments. With Bitcoin people have control over everything, that's something that makes governments poop their pants.