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Topic: [2014-01-27] Popular russian exchange closed due to russian central bank's note (Read 1201 times)

legendary
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Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported  Roll Eyes
BTC-E is an exchange from russian developers and it's one of two biggest stock exchanges in the world.
BTC-e is a fully licensed Bulgarian Exchange
Russian Ruble is collapsing so possible escape routes have to be closed to some extend before floodgates open
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Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported  Roll Eyes
BTC-E is an exchange from russian developers and it's one of two biggest stock exchanges in the world.

btc-e is located ouside russia. (bulgaria)
so no problems for btc-e , this is why is great bitcoin is decentralized.

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Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported  Roll Eyes
BTC-E is an exchange from russian developers and it's one of two biggest stock exchanges in the world.
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Had a native russian friend check it out - this is a ban, folks.

But I'm sure reddit and elsewhere will say "this is actually good news".
This is not a new ban. "Money surrogates" was banned in Russian since nobody remembers when. This is just a warning from russian central bank.
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Well it is pretty catastrophic, Russian exchanges account for about .000000001 percent of volume last time it was reported  Roll Eyes
legendary
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Had a native russian friend check it out - this is a ban, folks.

But I'm sure reddit and elsewhere will say "this is actually good news".
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This is the real news right now. (The Russian press-release.)
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A popular russian exchange metabank.ru closed after russian central bank’s press-release "about virtual currency".

"Money surrogates issue are forbidden in Russian Federation", press-release says. Russian central bank also warns about "potential involving in terrorism financing".

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