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0 pointsmlvljr12y ago0 comments

Coming from Russia, and skimming through related news today, I get an impression, nothing is banned (by any means).

What they might do at some point, is prohibit selling goods for bc, this is possible.

Mining / exchanging and buying outside of the country, or buying virtual goods will not go anywhere for sure :)

Again, another Orwellian-themed fake news about my place (or am I getting paranoid?)

UPD: just read the article at http://genproc.gov.ru/smi/news/genproc/news-86432/ -- yep, no new laws, nothing -- "measures will be taken to prevent fraud, etc."

The overall impression is, they are going (a some point, not now) to explicitly delegitimize cryptocurrencies as a means to make payments officialy, but not ban / outlaw using the mining tools, or exchanging the bitcoins.

0 pointsmlvljr12y ago0 comments

Coming from Russia, and skimming through related news today, I get an impression, nothing is banned (by any means).

What they might do at some point, is prohibit selling goods for bc, this is possible.

Mining / exchanging and buying outside of the country, or buying virtual goods will not go anywhere for sure :)

Again, another Orwellian-themed fake news about my place (or am I getting paranoid?)

UPD: just read the article at http://genproc.gov.ru/smi/news/genproc/news-86432/ -- yep, no new laws, nothing -- "measures will be taken to prevent fraud, etc."

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eatitraw12y ago· 2 in thread

I'm from Russia too, and my understanding that the situation is not that bright: they clearly declare that <<bitcoin is "money surrogate" and cannot be used>>(used as money?).

What they _might_ do at some point is in fact allow trading bitcoin itself just like China. They declare that they are concerned "protecting interests of users of cryptocurrencies", so there is hope.

mlvljrOP12y ago

We'll see, so far this has resulted in bc <-> Russial PayPal clones / alternative operations being (willingly, I'm sure) blocked by that exchange site from the top comment.

perlpimp12y ago

this smells of old days when ruble collapsed and people started using dollar as a shadow agreed upon currency.

canvia12y ago· 2 in thread

You make a lot of posts defending the Russian government.

mlvljrOP12y ago

Yeah, I am getting close to counter-balancing the CNN :)

coldtea12y ago

Why, should he be making the opposite? It's a government, people, lots of people, have voted FOR it, and support its actions.

Lots of Americans in HN make lots of comments defending the US government and the US point of view. Actually the American point of the view (not just in politics: in life, about startups, society, etc) is the constant undertone on everything written here.

Just because to somebody, as an American, when he champions such things it feels to him like he is stating the "natural law" (instead of man made ethics and opinions) doesn't change that fact.

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