Yep, until there is a bill officially signed and approved by Putin, I don't take these proposals seriously. There's been a slew of proposed bills contradicting each other. There's also been lots of different officials stating contradictory views on the legalities surrounding cryptocurrency. It's all moot until something official happens.
Correct, damn, it was like 2 years ago when they said they're going to be crypto friendly, even pictures of mining farm surfaces last year, but up to this day we haven't seen any proof whatsoever that they are going to adopt crypto, and the contradiction, LOL, no official spokesman, its like "he said, she said', to me. I'm been telling this all along in this forum for quite sometime and I still hold on that belief until some drastic changes happens in Russia, for now we should take everything with a bag of salt.
I think Russia has flip-flopped more than any other government on cryptocurrency issues. In 2014, the Prosecutor General said Bitcoin was illegal because it was a "money substitute." In 2016, the Federal Tax Service declared bitcoins were "not illegal." The same year, a bill was proposed that would have sent Bitcoin users to jail if passed. Statements from the Finance Minister and his deputy have literally contradicted each other.
There's obviously a huge amount of internal dissent, which is why we've never seen an actual law passed.
