Russia Reportedly Plans To Track Bitcoin-To-Fiat Sales
According to local news reports, a Russian financial monitoring service will be tracking bitcoin-to-fiat transactions.Authorities in Russia are planning to track transactions involving the exchange of bitcoin for rubles, according to a report from the local news agency Regnum. Per the report, the country’s deputy head of Moscow’s financial monitoring service Rosfinmonitoring, Herman Neglyad, announced the plan during a governmental meeting.According to a translated version of the Regnum report, Neglyad said that financial institutions in the country like banks have already begun to report....
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