This was expected,but how do they know if you pay with bitcoin?
I mean,you obviously won't be able to use it in shops,but how about internet transactions,or particular transactions?
Not much they can do. They can forbid every Russian business from accepting BTC and that's pretty much it. Maybe also freeze accounts of Russian miners selling BTC abroad, but don't think they'd do it.
At least they allowed to 'play' with them
Exactly, its actually good news as they say ;].
They will allow paying after wider adoption, because there will be no other way.
They cannot criminalise majority of population.
Or can they...
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Nah, they would never...