Kazakhstan’s central bank ‘isn’t going to ignore’ the crypto market
According to the chairman, the central bank will decide on implementing its own digital currency by the end of 2022. While Kazakhstan’s government is catching up with the tremendous volume of crypto mining in the country by introducing new taxes and regulations, the local central bank intends to explore the possibilities that crypto offers. On Tuesday, June 7 during the press conference the chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Bank Galymzhan Pirmatov stated that the nation aims to extract the profit from technologies the cryptocurrency market could provide. He emphasized the attractiveness of....
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