Too early to talk about using crypto for oil trading, says Putin

Too early to talk about using crypto for oil trading, says Putin

The Russian president has not excluded the possibility that, at some point, crypto will become a “means of accumulation.” Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that it's “still premature” to use cryptocurrencies for settling trades of energy resources like oil.The Russian president discussed potential use cases of cryptocurrencies in a Thursday CNBC interview following a plenary session of the ​​Russian Energy Week forum.According to a full interview text published on the Kremlin’s official website, Putin said that private cryptocurrencies “can act as a unit of account” but they are....


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