Guys, I have some news
There is a chance Russia will be open for BTC and other cryptocurrencies. The main Russian government bank "Sberbank" will create crypto found to support new projects.
I think this is a good sign
How could somebody trust anything that comes from Russia and fin this case Sberbank
Let me give you a few examples of the total mess:
Sberbank CEO Herman Gref has “agreed” on the development of a Russian national cryptocurrency with the country’s central bank.
Sberbank is Russia’s major state-controlled bank. In unofficial reports from local news aggregators, the so-called “Russian Bitcoin” will use Sberbank as its base and will be “the only cryptocurrency freely available for sale and purchase” in the country.
“All other [cryptocurrencies] will only be available via exchanges or trading platforms
After that we have
Just recently, a top executive of Sberbank (Chief Technology Officer Pavel Khodalev) attended the International Blockchain Week in China. For Sberbank’s CTO, Blockchain is a transformation that will blaze a trail for the whole world. Although the attitude in Russia about Bitcoin has not been positive, Sberbank continuously gets involved in programs to introduce a local Blockchain consortium. The bank is working hard to change inaccurate impressions regarding the platform even as the bureaucracy is quite impervious to such technologies because of long periods of tumultuous reforms.
The possibility of creating a crypto fund is considered on the basis of the Swiss subsidiary of the Savings Bank - Sberbank (Switzerland) AG.
"We are experimenting with blocking, and blocking is not only bitcoin, it's different stories. We have different ideas about creating a crypto fund, but everything is not easy. He [bitcoiyn] grows at such a rate, and mining bitcoin rather limited. As soon as the problem with mining is resolved, it will be visible there, "he said, commenting on the interest of Sberbank's" daughter "in Switzerland to the blockade and the crypto currency.
Every news we hear from Russia is about establishing a new blockchain and a new state owned and control coin.
There is no way they are going to accept something they can't control, they will either put some laws and methods in place to avoid capital outflow or they will just do nothing about legalization.