Russian Roadmap Includes Draft for Blockchain Legalisation in 2017
The Internet Development Institute (IRI) of Russia has prepared a roadmap titled “Economics and Finance” which includes a proposal for regulating blockchain. A new roadmap that pitches the proposal to ‘legalize’ blockchain technology by January 2017 was submitted to President Putin this week, December 22, 2015. The roadmap is a supplement under the wider proposal called “Internet Program 2025”, an initiative that puts together proposals for the development of internet and communication as a whole in Russia. The proposal has one if its strongest advocates in Andrei Romanenko, the co-founder....
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