Russia houses $200B worth of crypto, Kremlin estimates
According to data from TASS news services, Russians owned nearly 5 trillion rubles worth of cryptocurrencies by December 2021. Russian citizens reportedly own 16.5 trillion rubles ($214 billion) worth of cryptocurrencies, according to government estimates.A Bloomberg report noted that Russians own about 12% of the total global crypto holdings. The crypto holdings estimates were calculated by analyzing IP addresses of some of the most significant crypto exchange users in the country along with a few other data points, said two people working with Kremlin. The crypto holdings analysis of....
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