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What Russia’s ‘Digital Iron Curtain’ Means for Bitcoin UsersThe Russian Duma approved a bill that would enable the country to have a “Great Firewall” or “Iron Curtain” similar to what China has. The result of the law is that, whenever the government wants to, it can censor all incoming and outgoing traffic traveling through state-owned channels.https://www.ccn.com/what-russias-digital-iron-curtain-means-for-bitcoin-users
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April 13, 2019, 05:25:15 PM |
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According to proposed regulations, the government wants to restrict Russian traders to local crypto exchanges and also only allow “qualified” investors – e.g., those with a degree in economics and a certificate from the government – to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? With that kind of regulation they are exactly doing the exact opposite of what other countries are doing where they allow their citizens to trade and try to limit money from their financial institutions coming in. Why the hell do you need a degree in economics for before you trade legally when we all know most of the economists out here are close minded when it comes to the crypto market itself. They are setting the motion backwards here and I doubt that there is really a big threat in their country to do such thing.
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April 14, 2019, 06:39:14 AM |
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According to proposed regulations, the government wants to restrict Russian traders to local crypto exchanges and also only allow “qualified” investors – e.g., those with a degree in economics and a certificate from the government – to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? With that kind of regulation they are exactly doing the exact opposite of what other countries are doing where they allow their citizens to trade and try to limit money from their financial institutions coming in. Why the hell do you need a degree in economics for before you trade legally when we all know most of the economists out here are close minded when it comes to the crypto market itself. They are setting the motion backwards here and I doubt that there is really a big threat in their country to do such thing. In today's Russia, in this corrupt country where oligarchic clans rule, there can be no other way. They can also adopt a bill that is in their possession on imposing criminal liability for the use of cryptocurrency by "unqualified" users. I did not expect anything else from the Putin regime. Directly, it is inconvenient for them to completely ban cryptocurrency after Putin and the other top leaders of the country extolled it and in fact introduced the same prohibition in a slightly different way. I'm surprised-Putin has a lie everywhere.
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April 14, 2019, 12:25:12 PM |
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What Russia’s ‘Digital Iron Curtain’ Means for Bitcoin UsersThe Russian Duma approved a bill that would enable the country to have a “Great Firewall” or “Iron Curtain” similar to what China has. The result of the law is that, whenever the government wants to, it can censor all incoming and outgoing traffic traveling through state-owned channels.https://www.ccn.com/what-russias-digital-iron-curtain-means-for-bitcoin-users For crypto users, this would undoubtedly mean that all of their transactional traffic could become known to the government at any time. Then why do we need crypto
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April 14, 2019, 12:41:26 PM |
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According to proposed regulations, the government wants to restrict Russian traders to local crypto exchanges and also only allow “qualified” investors – e.g., those with a degree in economics and a certificate from the government – to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? With that kind of regulation they are exactly doing the exact opposite of what other countries are doing where they allow their citizens to trade and try to limit money from their financial institutions coming in. Why the hell do you need a degree in economics for before you trade legally when we all know most of the economists out here are close minded when it comes to the crypto market itself. They are setting the motion backwards here and I doubt that there is really a big threat in their country to do such thing. I don't think that they'll actually regulate the traders that way. It looks too hilarious to be true. Within the past few years, we've seen a lot of "fake" news by such websites and I think that it's just another one of them. Even if someone has "proposed" such regulations", I'm sure that they won't get approved.
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April 14, 2019, 03:47:10 PM |
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According to proposed regulations, the government wants to restrict Russian traders to local crypto exchanges and also only allow “qualified” investors – e.g., those with a degree in economics and a certificate from the government – to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? With that kind of regulation they are exactly doing the exact opposite of what other countries are doing where they allow their citizens to trade and try to limit money from their financial institutions coming in. Why the hell do you need a degree in economics for before you trade legally when we all know most of the economists out here are close minded when it comes to the crypto market itself. They are setting the motion backwards here and I doubt that there is really a big threat in their country to do such thing. I don't think that they'll actually regulate the traders that way. It looks too hilarious to be true. Within the past few years, we've seen a lot of "fake" news by such websites and I think that it's just another one of them. Even if someone has "proposed" such regulations", I'm sure that they won't get approved. When we do try to look at on their proposal or that kind of regulation it is really quite odd compared into most common regulations on where most countries are doing.I fully agree on the thing been said above on why the heck it would really be needed to have that Economics degree for you to trade on? Thats way more too choking for possible traders out there locally.
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April 14, 2019, 06:37:27 PM |
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The government of Russia seems to be pursuing a tough anti-people policy aimed at restricting its citizens from world news and other information. We see that the global information system Internet in Russia is subject to censorship and persecution. Having the right to choose the information offered and the opportunity censoring the incoming information, the Russian government will be very easy to control the minds of its citizens. Regulation of cryptocurrency in Russia is part of such a plan. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are going to put on an "iron curtain" there as well on cryptocurrency. To allow cryptocurrency to be owned only by persons who will be licensed by the government means the same total control over citizens and not only in the information plan, but also in the field of finance.
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According to proposed regulations, the government wants to restrict Russian traders to local crypto exchanges and also only allow “qualified” investors – e.g., those with a degree in economics and a certificate from the government – to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? With that kind of regulation they are exactly doing the exact opposite of what other countries are doing where they allow their citizens to trade and try to limit money from their financial institutions coming in. Why the hell do you need a degree in economics for before you trade legally when we all know most of the economists out here are close minded when it comes to the crypto market itself. They are setting the motion backwards here and I doubt that there is really a big threat in their country to do such thing. I guess their logic is that trading is a zero-sum game and that uneducated people will generally lose their money with it, so the government should protect them. They also distrust Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, because they generally very suspicious of every technology that didn't originate from Russia, as they think there's a risk that it comes from the Western security services and they've put some backdoors into it.
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I don't really give a shit about the trading thing. I don't believe a fucking thing the Russian government says about crypto.
Beyond that from what I've read this sovereign internet thing is their nuclear option, not the planned day to day reality. In a way other countries should consider the same option. The US is not anyone's friend and internet usability is an awfully powerful axe to wield and only getting more powerful.
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I honestly don't think that it's as big a deal as it seems.
It's not unprecedented, as China has done it already, and yet it still has a strong influence over the market. China doesn't even have centralized exchanges operating in its borders anymore, but trading activity still goes on through p2p means.
Why? Because bitcoin is intrinsically decentralized, and you can only do so much to stop the flow of internet traffic. You can't just pinpoint bitcoin transactions and block them.
I think if this was ever implemented, the most effect will be felt by third party services that offer their product to Russian users, because their sites would be blocked off. But even then, there will be alternatives for Russians popping up real quick, because the bitcoin blockchain itself is still accessible nonetheless.
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What are the methods available to outmanoeuvre this? I reckon there is Tor, VPNs and proxies to make their jobs of regulating traffic very difficult.
Also, the Russian government might censor some centralized bitcoin websites, however, can it censor a random node from connecting to other random nodes?
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April 17, 2019, 02:08:21 AM |
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What are the methods available to outmanoeuvre this? I reckon there is Tor, VPNs and proxies to make their jobs of regulating traffic very difficult.
Also, the Russian government might censor some centralized bitcoin websites, however, can it censor a random node from connecting to other random nodes?
dnscrypt is also a good choice to bypass such massive censorship. They might be able to block a node to connect to other nodes if they have enough data (I believe they'll force internet providers to blacklist those IPs as a way to block this). But that's easy to bypass as some nodes might just get a new address.
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@elda34b. Similar to America's SEC, it might be easy from them to create the laws but it might be hard to enforce them as regulations hehehe.
However, I also reckon that all the created government restrictions might also be good for the cryptospace as a challenge to find other methods of avoiding them hehehe.
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don't trust any news about crypto coming from Russia in most cases the news is either not true or scewed this article is all about the "iron curtain" and how Russia is "crushing the free internet" and "restricting internet to its citizens" while in reality it is a project to try and create a self-sufficient internet , not reliant on international channels and servers located elsewhere this is more of a precautionary security measure rather than an "assault on democracy and all thats holy" because of the Crimea sanctions there were talks about disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT , so what if the next move were to disconnect Russia from the internet? China can do this and they remain the biggest US trade partner , but Russia cannot even try to propose such a thing without getting slammed the article is biased on so many levels , but it is not surprising to me
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@veleten. China holds $1.17 trillion in US treasury bonds, while Russia does not hold anything and might also have given up their position as a nuclear super power.
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if the article tells the truth I do not know, but the political system of russia is a very shady political system and it does not seem to me that russia intends to see bitcoin being adopted en masse in its country, it seems to me that what the Russian government want is greatly reduce the number of people using bitcoin so that the Russian government has more control over the small number of people who use bitcoin in their country. This is something expected of governments that have a shadowy political system, for this kind of government to remain in power is because they control and manipulate their people.
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April 18, 2019, 04:42:09 AM |
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if the article tells the truth I do not know, but the political system of russia is a very shady political system and it does not seem to me that russia intends to see bitcoin being adopted en masse in its country, it seems to me that what the Russian government want is greatly reduce the number of people using bitcoin so that the Russian government has more control over the small number of people who use bitcoin in their country. This is something expected of governments that have a shadowy political system, for this kind of government to remain in power is because they control and manipulate their people.
Indeed, the Russian government has long wanted to limit the use of cryptocurrency in its country. More precisely, it wants to completely deprive the right to use the cryptocurrency of an ordinary person. Cryptocurrency can only be used by politically trustworthy persons or those close to the ruling elite. This, of course, is very sad. However, after the power changes in Russia, the attitude to cryptocurrency will change.
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April 18, 2019, 02:36:25 PM |
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@veleten. China holds $1.17 trillion in US treasury bonds, while Russia does not hold anything and might also have given up their position as a nuclear super power.
Russia doesn't want to sponsor the debt of the United States and therefore they sold the treasury bonds and purchased gold bars instead. And the Russian nuclear weapons are much more potent than what the US has. On top of that, Russia has the most powerful ICBMs.
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April 19, 2019, 04:18:31 AM |
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if the article tells the truth I do not know, but the political system of russia is a very shady political system and it does not seem to me that russia intends to see bitcoin being adopted en masse in its country, it seems to me that what the Russian government want is greatly reduce the number of people using bitcoin so that the Russian government has more control over the small number of people who use bitcoin in their country. This is something expected of governments that have a shadowy political system, for this kind of government to remain in power is because they control and manipulate their people.
However, can the Russian government enforce any ban or enforce any strict regulations created on bitcoin? What would stop me if I use a VPN, Tor, proxies and bitcoin?
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April 19, 2019, 08:33:23 AM |
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@veleten. China holds $1.17 trillion in US treasury bonds, while Russia does not hold anything and might also have given up their position as a nuclear super power.
I don't see how would this justify treating any information coming from Russia in a certain biased way this is not journalism but propaganda Russia used to have at least 0.11 trillion in US treasury bonds they sold over 80% in 2018 , not surprisingly but I wonder how they are going to give up their position as a nuclear superpower if they hold the top 2 nuclear arsenal in the world and if we compare the quality of their ICBM to the US ones , they are way newer and better read this: https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/putin-boasts-he-has-new-game-changer-weapons-and-the-us-agrees/news-story/c86903568de25b633b5f51313806805b
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