Additionally, Moscow announced it expects to establish a “central bank digital currency,” but has discouraged private cryptocurrency usage until recent weeks. Russia only recently made cryptocurrency legal in January, but has prohibited it from being used to purchase services and goods.
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Russia Moving Towards Broad Crypto-payments Legalization: Manturov
Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said the nation is expecting to legalize crypto payments “sooner or later,” indicating resolution of the matter may be nearing. So reports Bitcoinist.
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