I'm always surprised that Russia isn't more active in mining Bitcoin
There are a few reasons behind this
First of all, people are not very familiar with Bitcoin in Russia overall. Second, China had an advantage before Russia as well as most other countries (barring, maybe, the US) in respect to the ease of getting mining equipment. Basically, China happens to manufacture the equipment used for mining, so it is no surprise that it takes a leading position in Bitcoin mining.
And last (but likely not least), wealthy people in Russia are not the same kind of wealthy people in China. Most of their wealth comes from selling natural resources and arms which China is a net importer of, and they just don't feel very interested in Bitcoin and earning profits through Bitcoin mining (when they can just continue selling oil and natural gas as well as tanks and fighters to the same China)
seems not only is the logic of difference between
citizen and government too much for people to grasp, but geography too.
russia is not even in europe.. so not sure why russia was mentioned... not even sure why governments arms trading is mentioned in relation to citizens choice of using a different currency.. russian government selling guns to china govrnment has nothing at all to do with individual peoples choice or to do with the topic of bitcoin.
but anyway
russia is not number 2 of best places to manufacture miners and mine...
however if you want to play the skin colour racial biased game and class a few individuals as being the same as a whole country.
to answer the question why isnt russia more active. and if china just got there first...
"russia" has been involved in bitcoin far long before "china".
BTC-E has been running since 2011 afterall.
vitalic buterin got involved in 2011 too
you may now say that i only stated 2 small examples of 2 small entities and then whitewashed it to sound like i was trying to coat the whole country as being involved..
well i hope you see the reverse psychology of it