Indicators show Russians Trading Rubles for BTC
The Russian Ruble continues its tumble against the US Dollar, losing over 50% of its value in 2014, and more than 11% on Tuesday alone. This one-day loss was the biggest in over 15 years. These issues has led to many well-to-do Russians investing in the future of Bitcoin over their fiat currency to stem the losses the Russian Central Banking system seems at a loss to curtail. Oddly, given the endorsement and implementation of Bitcoin by Microsoft last week and these latest developments, Bitcoin is also down in recent trading. Down from a high of $359 on December 11th to $317 USD currently.....
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