2014-01-26 russias-largest bank backs bitcoin

[notthematrix]

http://www.coindesk.com/russias-largest-bank-backs-bitcoin/

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That's a great news mate.

[bryant.coleman]

The Central Bank is against BTC. The Sberbank is not that powerful to take on the Russian Central Bank. Also, the Sberbank is headed by Hermann Graf, an ethnic German. (That is a disadvantage in Russia). 

[hilariousandco]

http://www.coindesk.com/russias-largest-bank-backs-bitcoin/

He said an outright ban would be a “colossal mistake”, adding: “It definitely shouldn’t be banned, it must be studied and maybe regulated properly”.

Nice to see a banker with his head on his shoulders.

[Smileyftw]

looks like Russia want to regulate it properly and that's interesting

[hilariousandco]

looks like Russia want to regulate it properly and that's interesting

Regulate it? Seems like they've banned it outright according to most other articles.

[notthematrix]

looks like Russia want to regulate it properly and that's interesting

Regulate it? Seems like they've banned it outright according to most other articles.

No bans , what you see is a fight within the elite......
Some understand that tyhe recources on the planet are limited and this means we need an other ecocomic system....
they understand that endless growth will kill us.....
and only decentralized systems controled by nobody will be accepted by almost evrybody.
its the standard warning ..... http://rt.com/business/bitcoin-warning-russia-bank-280/
like all old banks do , like europe china , us etc etc all did this warning!
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[SirWilliam]

Great article, sounds like it's full steam ahead for BTC in Russia, lol at anyone who believed the FUD about "banning" hahahaaaaa 

[hilariousandco]

looks like Russia want to regulate it properly and that's interesting

Regulate it? Seems like they've banned it outright according to most other articles.

No bans , what you see is a fight within the elite......
Some understand that tyhe recources on the planet are limited and this means we need an other ecocomic system....
they understand that endless growth will kill us.....
and only decentralized systems controled by nobody will be accepted by almost evrybody.
its the standard warning ..... http://rt.com/business/bitcoin-warning-russia-bank-280/
like all old banks do , like europe china , us etc etc all did this warning!
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I dunno, this seems to say otherwise: http://www.cbr.ru/press/PR.aspx?file=27012014_1825052.htm (use google translate).