Russian Bitcoin Users Can Face Jail Time up to 15 years

[keithers]

If I hold 1 BTC in my wallet, I can go to prison? I don't think so.
With that attitude, Russia will just stay behind everyone.

It seemingly is behind everyone with their homophobic laws and anti-gay stance. Pathetic behaviour.

What does anti-gay stance have to do with accepting or not btc?

It's completely unrelated, but shows how behind the times they are.  

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[Swordsoffreedom]

So its for money laundering not for holding

[empoweoqwj]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

[tvbcof]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations.  The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.

[empoweoqwj]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations.  The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.

Not corrupt? lol.  He's crushed every opponent he can get his hands on. Crushed all free press. Learn some recent Russian history, please.

[tvbcof]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations.  The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.

Not corrupt? lol.  He's crushed every opponent he can get his hands on. Crushed all free press. Learn some recent Russian history, please.

Being a tyrant and being corrupt are two subtly different things.

I don't doubt that Putin is a real bastard and I'm goddamn glad he isn't my leader and that I'm not a Rooshin, but if I were I would bet I would feel a at least a tinge of pride that my country was not a total ass-bitch to the U.S. as is most of the rest of Europe and a great many other countries besides.

[empoweoqwj]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations.  The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.

Not corrupt? lol.  He's crushed every opponent he can get his hands on. Crushed all free press. Learn some recent Russian history, please.

Being a tyrant and being corrupt are two subtly different things.

I don't doubt that Putin is a real bastard and I'm goddamn glad he isn't my leader and that I'm not a Rooshin, but if I were I would bet I would feel a at least a tinge of pride that my country was not a total ass-bitch to the U.S. as is most of the rest of Europe and a great many other countries besides.

OK, he's a real bastard, a tyrant, but you think an average Russian is proud of him? Russia has never been an "ass-bitch" of the US, that we all know. I don't think its a reason to feel any tinge of pride for Putin.

[tvbcof]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations.  The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.

Not corrupt? lol.  He's crushed every opponent he can get his hands on. Crushed all free press. Learn some recent Russian history, please.

Being a tyrant and being corrupt are two subtly different things.

I don't doubt that Putin is a real bastard and I'm goddamn glad he isn't my leader and that I'm not a Rooshin, but if I were I would bet I would feel a at least a tinge of pride that my country was not a total ass-bitch to the U.S. as is most of the rest of Europe and a great many other countries besides.

OK, he's a real bastard, a tyrant, but you think an average Russian is proud of him? Russia has never been an "ass-bitch" of the US, that we all know. I don't think its a reason to feel any tinge of pride for Putin.

Read again.  I said pride in Russia.  Not pride in Putin.  I forgot the previous looser's name (oh ya, Yeltsin) but as far as I'm concerned Russia was a pathetic laughing stock under him and on the fast-track to ass-bitch-ism.  From where I sit it looks to me like Putin has turned that around.

[nitehawk]

Russia got a few more issues to worry about other than bitcoin users..
the revolt issue in the Ukraine.
the Olympics .
preventing the US from bombing the living crap out of Syria for not handing over there chemical weapons.

[empoweoqwj]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

Might be cool as person. As a leader, he's a despot. Nearly all leaders are hugely charismatic. That's why people follow them.

I figured people liked him because we was not a corrupt lard-ass boozer who carved up his country and gave it to his crony oligarch friends who then turned around and sold it to the Western corporations.  The Russian proles are made out to be as being dumb as rocks in the West, but I'll bet that a good number of them are not completely blind.

Not corrupt? lol.  He's crushed every opponent he can get his hands on. Crushed all free press. Learn some recent Russian history, please.

Being a tyrant and being corrupt are two subtly different things.

I don't doubt that Putin is a real bastard and I'm goddamn glad he isn't my leader and that I'm not a Rooshin, but if I were I would bet I would feel a at least a tinge of pride that my country was not a total ass-bitch to the U.S. as is most of the rest of Europe and a great many other countries besides.

OK, he's a real bastard, a tyrant, but you think an average Russian is proud of him? Russia has never been an "ass-bitch" of the US, that we all know. I don't think its a reason to feel any tinge of pride for Putin.

Read again.  I said pride in Russia.  Not pride in Putin.  I forgot the previous looser's name (oh ya, Yeltsin) but as far as I'm concerned Russia was a pathetic laughing stock under him and on the fast-track to ass-bitch-ism.  From where I sit it looks to me like Putin has turned that around.

I'm sure he's a great guy. Managed it by ruthlessly crushing all opposition. If Russians are proud of that, shows how shitty previous regimes have been. And I admit they've had there fair share of shitty communist regimes.

[hashman]

Russia got a few more issues to worry about other than bitcoin users..
the revolt issue in the Ukraine.
the Olympics .
preventing the US from bombing the living crap out of Syria for not handing over there chemical weapons.

Yeah.  There are a lot of US citizen right now like Putin, they think he bought us a lot of time last year and somehow is holding up some kinda resistance and/or power balance. 

[zeetubes]

If you spent much time outside of the US during the W years there was pretty universal hatred of everything that happened while he was in power. Although it was probably Cheney calling the shots. Certainly Putin doesn't seem any more ruthless. Just like Cheney, but more popular and no pacemaker. When Bush was re-elected most people that I heard commenting in other countries were saying WTF? What are they thinking?

[r0ach]

Don't worry people.  If the Western governments crack down on Bitcoin we'll just move to China Russia somewhere else.

France or Scandinavia is my best guess.  Australia has no bill of rights or guns, and Canada is still a slave colony of Britain.

[BitBits]

Create an alt called GayCoin and then you can go to jail twice.

And if you stay out of jail you also need to worry about being blown up at least if you go to the games.

RE: being blown up <-- is this real perception of safety at Olympics?

[bitgeek]

Some facts about Russia.
They invaded the Chechen Republic and then issued a law that guerilla freedom fighters are terrorists, then tried to do the same with Georgia.
Flew their new nuclear bombers over EU air space to check if they could nuke Sweden.
When polish president's plane crashed in Russia they never gave back the wreckage even though the country requested it.
They poisoned their own KGB agent who asked for asylum in Britain.

No wonder they are afraid of terrorists They are the biggest bully in Europe.

[empoweoqwj]

Don't worry people.  If the Western governments crack down on Bitcoin we'll just move to China Russia somewhere else.

France or Scandinavia is my best guess.  Australia has no bill of rights or guns, and Canada is still a slave colony of Britain.

Love insulting Canadians do you? Classy.

[alkaz]

thank God Im not russian 

[btcmad1337]

Even if this was the case I don't see how they would enforce such a law. Executing drug-style raids on houses of people suspected of running Bitcoin clients, pulling up the floor looking for hidden micro sd cards or paper wallets, interrogating people for brainwallets... Not going to work.

[raskul]

Even if this was the case I don't see how they would enforce such a law. Executing drug-style raids on houses of people suspected of running Bitcoin clients, pulling up the floor looking for hidden micro sd cards or paper wallets, interrogating people for brainwallets... Not going to work.

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[Alphi]

Russia is pathetic it's like evolution backwards. They get dumber and dumber. Vladamir Putin is an assclown.

Putin is cool though, as a person.

What you mean backwards? You can call yourself pussy riot and sing silly protest songs in a church in Russia nowdays.
Back in Stalins day.. there were no Churches, No Riots, No Silly singing, no protesting, and no Pussy..

now that's progress
boom boom..

oyeah and there's no KYC rules in russia either... its more like KYFLSM.. "know your friendly local strong man".