It is obvious now that Russia is actively working to move away from the US dollar and pretty much any financial institution under the US govt's control. They are working on alternatives to Visa/Mastercard and even the SWIFT payment network.
Yes, they have for a while. On top of that a ton of paper has been signed among BRICS. They want to get rid of Wests monopoly on Money. In perticular the IMF, Worldbank and Goldman Sachs.
Unfortunately I don't really see them embracing Bitcoin any time soon as they will want a currency that is under their control. I believe the theory that they are working towards making the Ruble fully backed by gold. I believe they have also commissioned a bank to work on their own ecurrency.
Yes, but come on see what is happening. They are promoting Bitcoin for the US while banning it at home. They will not embrace bitcoin but they will promote it so the US population and smaller buisinesses do. And i'm SURE they will give us a good startpump
Of course, I'm sure many Russian citizens would rather have Bitcoin for privacy concerns so any government-backed ecurrency will probably go the way of the "Mint Chip" that the Canadian government released a while back (i.e. nowhere).
I'm sure the russian ruble will stand stronger than most in theese times. Russia is an extremely Rich oil and resource-based nation With a strong population and good diplomatic ties.
They will probably let their population invest small personal Money, for a bit of safety, gamble(Crimea) and means of payment/transfer basically.
But the big millionares, billionares, big Companies etc of the west. They will all buy an ammount Bitcoin. Much? Not much? Doesn't matter. For Bitcoins 7bil market cap "Alittle" is a tsunami.
