Russian Official Calls for Criminal Liability for Bitcoin
Russia’s Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin has, once again, opined that virtual and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are money substitutes or surrogates that need to be outlawed. He also claimed that virtual currencies are “often used” for the financing of terrorism. In a sweeping, wide-ranging column on Russian publication Kommersant, Alexander Bastykin – chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia and General of Justice of the Russian Federation wrote about extremism in Russia and the ways to curb it. He speaks of a “hybrid war”, one “unleashed” by the United States....
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The Ministry of Justice in Russia has, once again, not agreed to a draft bill put forth by the Finance Ministry seeking to ban bitcoin and introduce criminal liabilities to those who adopt, transact or mine the cryptocurrency. The Russian Ministry of Justice has disagreed with the bitcoin bill prepared by the Ministry of Justice, despite the bill being the second version of the draft, due to be entered into the State Duma – the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament. The first draft saw the Ministry of Justice disagreeing with some of the wording of the bill, specifically the lack of a....
In Russia a report from Forklog reveals the Ministry of Finance has created a new version of sanction for many of the uses of Bitcoin. The law applies to those who “manufacture, acquire for the purpose of selling, as well as their distribution may be punished”. Calling it a “turnover of money substitutes” the punishments are up to 300 thousand Rubles or....
The legal vacuum in the crypto mining sector must be filled “as soon as possible,” according to a statement by Russian Deputy Minister of Energy Evgeniy Grabchak. The government official also called for introducing regional quotas for crypto farms instead of regulating their business at the federal level.
Russian Official Proposes Regional Energy Quotas for Crypto Miners
Cryptocurrency mining needs to be regulated soon, Evgeniy Grabchak insisted during Russia’s first national conference of legal bitcoin miners, held recently in Irkutsk. The Siberian oblast,....
Despite the fact that top-managers of Russian financial institutions have spoken out in favour of Bitcoin and Blockchain, state authorities keep banning the use of all cryptocurrencies, at the same time planning to introduce the country’s own digital currency. Making sense of arguments. The Russian state is often seen as highly bureaucratic, inefficient, cumbersome, and unresponsive to the needs of its citizens, as well as potentially limiting freedom of choice. Currently it has been vigorously defending and guarding itself from a bizarre phenomenon, which has nevertheless been widely used....
The Association of Banks of Russia has previously collaborated with Binance as part of its expert center focused on crypto regulation. A major Russian banking association wants to criminalize keeping your own cryptocurrency keys.The Association of Banks of Russia, an organization including more than 300 Russian banks and financial institutions, has called on lawmakers to criminalize storing crypto outside of centralized exchanges on noncustodial wallets, local news agency Izvestia reported on Monday.In contrast to accounts at centralized crypto exchanges, noncustodial or self-custodial....