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Topic: Russian's own Bitcoin - What will be the impact to the original Bitcoin? (Read 3013 times)

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I am from Russia and I haven't hear anything like that yet. I would like to hear the news from the original source if it's possible. For me this all sounds as a try to make bitcoin controlled and housebound for Russian financial system. And all that made to people, to whom bitcoin became the source of financial income, pay taxes from their profit to the government by my opinion.
Ucy
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Honestly I see this as a waste of time unless the Altcoin will be allowed to run like normal cryptocurrency on the Blockchain. Meaning no interference, no market Manipulation, no Centralization and no " Russia Regulation".
legendary
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Blackjack.fun
Yet again, it's going to be one of those shitcoins that nothing is going to happen with. Maybe it'll see a surge in the price due to some news companies covering it from the whales that are inciting this all to happen, but nothing is actually going to happen to it when it comes to the coin being used and accepted in places. It's going to be left with the other million coins that are made for the devs and early early people to make a quick buck and that'll be all.

So, no impact bud -- but nice way of sharing it to get attention for the people that are bound to make a lot of money from it.

There will be nothing to invest in it. There will be no price fluctuation.
The coin will be pegged to the rubble forever.

And if the government decided everybody will be forced to accept it because of it's status as national currency.

Stop comparing it to auroracoin or other shitcoins and private projects.
This will be nothing like altcoins more like wmz and wmr.

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Government controlled coin  Grin  only children of the big government officials are gonna be allowed to mine it
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no, I don't think another worthless putincoin can impact the original Bitcoin.
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sooo it's just another Russian government made alt-coin with some dodgy gimmick implemented in it's code (we all know that russian government tends tends to be sneaky sometimes)?

It'll probably going to have as much as impact as any other alt-coin or a little stronger alt-coin. Nothing special.
newbie
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I don't think it will have any impact on Bitcoin. The power of Bitcoin comes from the fact that no single entity controls it, so I don't see what's the point of issuing a cryptocurrency that's controller by a bank, it will be just any other altcoin, even worse it's a centralized altcoin.
legendary
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Yet again, it's going to be one of those shitcoins that nothing is going to happen with. Maybe it'll see a surge in the price due to some news companies covering it from the whales that are inciting this all to happen, but nothing is actually going to happen to it when it comes to the coin being used and accepted in places. It's going to be left with the other million coins that are made for the devs and early early people to make a quick buck and that'll be all.

So, no impact bud -- but nice way of sharing it to get attention for the people that are bound to make a lot of money from it.
legendary
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Russia will only do a Bitcoin of their own if it is NOT a free market Bitcoin. In other words, they will want to dominate and control it. When the people find out this about it, they will not use it, but go back to the real Bitcoin.

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This effort does not mean anything. Bitcoin cannot belong to any county or government, or a successfull copy of bitcoin cannot be created by a country or government. They should see this point. It's decentralized.
legendary
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Blackjack.fun
I think it will have a big impact on bitcoin. Russia as we all know is a very large country so when country with that scale create an altcoin the world will notice and be on watch in the world of cryptocurrencies because the russian government has its own way of resolving things. I think people will buy their coin if it the history repeats itself, in the end they will just go all to bitcoin resulting to a boost of its usage and a massive price hike.

Yeah Russia is a big country.... and..?
Mongolia is bigger than Germany and it still doesn't count.
Th economy of Russia is the size of Netherlands and with 25 million people living with 100$ a month it's just funny to say it will have a big impact. It will have none.

The amount of money Russians put in bitcoin can be really easily offset by 1/10 of the people living in CA alone.

The real danger is if others try to replicate this.
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I think it will have a big impact on bitcoin. Russia as we all know is a very large country so when country with that scale create an altcoin the world will notice and be on watch in the world of cryptocurrencies because the russian government has its own way of resolving things. I think people will buy their coin if it the history repeats itself, in the end they will just go all to bitcoin resulting to a boost of its usage and a massive price hike.

I actually disagree with this. I really don't think that a country having a cryptocurrency of its own is going to change how bitcoin operates or even affect bitcoin's price in my opinion. Russia having its own cryptocurrency is completely unrelated to how bitcoin works. We don't need countries to have cryptos themselves. In fact I would argue that bitcoin should exist without intervention from governments. Russia having its own altcoin means that it wants to compete with bitcoin - something that isn't so good as it sounds.
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Russian is planning to have its own version of Bitcoin backed by the Sberbank.   

"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,” the Telegram news channel DeCenter reports Friday."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-bitcoin-will-be-countrys-only-freely-tradable-crypto-sberbank-ceo

What type of impact(s) will this have on the original Bitcoin?  Would the Russian Bitcoin survive?  Would the original Bitcoin be treated as a lower "second tier" crytocurrency in Russia or even in the world?  Would the original Bitcoin value goes down? 

What is your thought on this?

It's funny that they're finally turning to blockchain technology because if i remember correctly banks in Russia aren't really functional at all. Most people use a payment processor(either webmoney or yandex money, maybe others as well) instead of having a bank account.

What impact does this have on bitcoin? Nothing in my opinion because IT'S NOT EVEN DECENTRALIZED. They're using it as just a way to conveniently keep a ledger of everything so that hacks can't occur and someone changing the entries. The banks still have control over everything. It's not like bitcoin at all.

If you followed the news recently you would have also realised that russia is planning on trackng everything on the bitcoin network - it's completely absurd just as this idea of their own crypto is.
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I think it will have a big impact on bitcoin. Russia as we all know is a very large country so when country with that scale create an altcoin the world will notice and be on watch in the world of cryptocurrencies because the russian government has its own way of resolving things. I think people will buy their coin if it the history repeats itself, in the end they will just go all to bitcoin resulting to a boost of its usage and a massive price hike.
legendary
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Russian is planning to have its own version of Bitcoin backed by the Sberbank.   

"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,” the Telegram news channel DeCenter reports Friday."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-bitcoin-will-be-countrys-only-freely-tradable-crypto-sberbank-ceo

What type of impact(s) will this have on the original Bitcoin?  Would the Russian Bitcoin survive?  Would the original Bitcoin be treated as a lower "second tier" crytocurrency in Russia or even in the world?  Would the original Bitcoin value goes down? 

What is your thought on this?

It will surely impact bitcoin in positive way. What I understand that Russia is planning to develop their own digital currency based on blockchain which will compete with bitcoin. So it will make bitcoin even more serious business to the newcomers to the blockchain industry. They will take bitcoin more seriously when they will hear about this news.

I don't see it as a threat to bitcoin in any way, but expect bitcoin price to further increase if it happens. People who will take bitcoin seriously, will start  investing in good amounts in bitcoin which will further increase the market cap of bitcoin and so the price. Russians adopting digital currency will increase bitcoin's popularity for sure.
legendary
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It wont affect bitcoin
I think that if enough of those centralized government created coins , eventually people are going to realize how much better bitcoin or any other alt that is decentralized are, so this may have the opposite effect than the one they are looking instead of people using the centralized coin, people are going to want to use bitcoin, thanks to all the good characteristics bitcoin currently posses.

Bitcoin is getting centralized a bit from those exchanges that are requiring many different verification proof such as ID, proof of address, bank statements etc, in these way they are able to identify which users are sending money to x address or x exchange.

Russia can't own bitcoin and never can because bitcoin is expensive and it is needed a large budget to "centralize" bitcoin but still there will be some rooms that can't be owned by Russia nor any other country.
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I do not think there should be any new bitcoin, do not let the original bitcoin value become weak because of the new bitcoin, maybe if left later it will appear bitcoin from other countries also.
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Russian is planning to have its own version of Bitcoin backed by the Sberbank.   

"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,” the Telegram news channel DeCenter reports Friday."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-bitcoin-will-be-countrys-only-freely-tradable-crypto-sberbank-ceo

What type of impact(s) will this have on the original Bitcoin?  Would the Russian Bitcoin survive?  Would the original Bitcoin be treated as a lower "second tier" crytocurrency in Russia or even in the world?  Would the original Bitcoin value goes down? 

What is your thought on this?
Russian crypto currency would have no impact on bitcoin as bitcoin does not depend on Russia for its survival and bitcoin is universally accepted.Already,some countries have created their crypo currencies,but nothing could match with bitcoin.
legendary
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Weither it works or not it still brings some oride to the people and I think it's a good idea and a step towards the future. Even entire countries realize the potential of the blockchain. Why use fiat when your country can have a digital currency ? It will be very interesting to watch and see what becomes of this.

Agreed.  I think having more countries participate in the crytocurrencies will increase their people's awareness on Bitcoin as well.

Not just that it will come to that it will go more demand for bitcoin with this in mind, price for one bitcoin will go up with certain percentage of demand. This will be good for us and effect will be good for bitcoin and crypto community.
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Weither it works or not it still brings some oride to the people and I think it's a good idea and a step towards the future. Even entire countries realize the potential of the blockchain. Why use fiat when your country can have a digital currency ? It will be very interesting to watch and see what becomes of this.

Agreed.  I think having more countries participate in the crytocurrencies will increase their people's awareness on Bitcoin as well.
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