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Will Bitcoin Rise Again to $60,000?
December 14, 2013, 03:32:21 PM
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legendary
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English ⬄ Russian Translation Services
December 14, 2013, 03:30:02 PM
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Will Bitcoin Rise Again to $60,000?
December 14, 2013, 03:15:48 PM
#20
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December 14, 2013, 02:16:46 PM
#19
suddenly? Cheesy
I feel everyone, who knows what is Internet in Russia talking about Bitcoin.

It doesn't matter how much they are talking about Bitcoin. What's more important is how much they are ready to actually fork out...
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December 14, 2013, 02:01:43 PM
#18
suddenly? Cheesy
I feel everyone, who knows what is Internet in Russia talking about Bitcoin.
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December 14, 2013, 11:05:29 AM
#17
Broadbased adoption is great, Russia will hopefully become a huge player in btc
It helps that thy have had 2 currency crises in the last 20 odd years
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December 14, 2013, 09:54:00 AM
#16
For all i can see btc-e has the lowest price among the exchanges. That hardly indicates any hype  Embarrassed
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December 14, 2013, 09:51:37 AM
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For virtual currency to become mainstream, however, it would need regulation, said Gref, who was also reported as saying that virtual currency “‘experiments’ must end in one or two crashes” before they are firmly established. Russia has been relatively silent on regulation of virtual currencies to date

I can't simply comprehend how this could possibly go for an "endorsement" to use virtual currencies...

Perhaps the thinking is "crash" one was 2011, "crash" two was April 2013, so a crypto is now "firmly established"?  :-)

The Russian ruble seriously crashed twice in the modern history of Russia (in 1992 and in 1998), so it could easily be that Gref has some reminiscences of that history and would not consider a currency worthy of his attention or regulation if it didn't crash at least once (i.e. currency is still being no more than "experiment"). Maybe, he has a point (or two, lol)...

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December 14, 2013, 09:44:02 AM
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For virtual currency to become mainstream, however, it would need regulation, said Gref, who was also reported as saying that virtual currency “‘experiments’ must end in one or two crashes” before they are firmly established. Russia has been relatively silent on regulation of virtual currencies to date

I can't simply comprehend how this could possibly go for an "endorsement" to use virtual currencies...

Perhaps the thinking is "crash" one was 2011, "crash" two was April 2013, so a crypto is now "firmly established"?  :-)
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December 14, 2013, 09:20:08 AM
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For virtual currency to become mainstream, however, it would need regulation, said Gref, who was also reported as saying that virtual currency “‘experiments’ must end in one or two crashes” before they are firmly established. Russia has been relatively silent on regulation of virtual currencies to date

I can't simply comprehend how this could possibly go for an "endorsement" to use virtual currencies...
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In Satoshi I Trust
December 14, 2013, 08:58:39 AM
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Blackjack.fun
December 13, 2013, 09:28:04 PM
#11
Russians traditionally like virtual currencies (WebMoney and Yandex Money exist for 10-15), Bitcoin is not an exception! Most likely it happens because banking and credit cards were not available for most population until recently.

I see that as a deterrent in Bitcoin adoption actually. Same way the Kipochi plan failed.
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December 13, 2013, 09:19:15 PM
#10
Russians traditionally like virtual currencies (WebMoney and Yandex Money exist for 10-15), Bitcoin is not an exception! Most likely it happens because banking and credit cards were not available for most population until recently.
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December 13, 2013, 09:09:06 PM
#9
Not really.

There are lot of people interesting in bitcoin, but nothing special happening. It's just a common trend.

I wrote a couple of the most popular russian articles about bitcoin for newbies and here are their stats:



(red, blue and orange lines; others is for articles about batteries)
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December 13, 2013, 08:59:41 PM
#8
russias waking up! Grin
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Blackjack.fun
December 13, 2013, 08:49:00 PM
#7
So know we're having a Russia Hype?
Has the Chinese one already faded?
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December 13, 2013, 03:13:57 PM
#6
Is it just me, or did russia suddenly got interested in BTC?

I usually have fiatleak running in the background, and it has been running for about 10 hours now i guess, and i suddenly noticed a lot of transactions in RUB.



But apperantly Russia is second place now?

Yes, it was me buying bitcoins here/there...
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December 13, 2013, 02:47:15 PM
#5
Is it just me, or did russia suddenly got interested in BTC?

I usually have fiatleak running in the background, and it has been running for about 10 hours now i guess, and i suddenly noticed a lot of transactions in RUB.



Note that this also was largely during evening and night time in russia, but somehow they got more transactions in RUB than in USD which is quite amazing and i don't think this has happened before, or has it?

I always thought it was like this:

1) CNY
2) U.S. (or at least USD)
3) EUR
4) RUB
5) JPY
6) Rest

But apperantly Russia is second place now?


now on:

http://fiatleak.dyndns.org/
kjj
legendary
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December 09, 2013, 10:57:03 PM
#4
It takes a while to translate The Simpsons into Russian.
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December 09, 2013, 10:47:49 PM
#3
Spasibo (Thank You) Russia!  Grin
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