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Russian lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow businesses to use crypto currencies in international trade, as part of efforts to skirt Western sanctions imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. From a report:

The law is expected to go into force in September, and Russian central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, one of the backers of the new law, said the first transactions in cryptocurrencies will take place before the end of the year. Russia has faced significant delays in international payments with major trading partners such as China, India and the United Arab Emirates after banks in those countries, under pressure from Western regulators, became more cautious.

"We are taking a historic decision in the financial sphere," the head of the Duma lower house of parliament, Anatoly Aksakov, told lawmakers. Under the new law, the central bank will create a new "experimental" infrastructure for cryptocurrency payments. Details of the infrastructure have yet to be announced.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Legitimate uses for crypto: 0

Cyber crime, money laundering, scams, sanctions evasions: 1,000,003

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Crypto allows thousands of people around the globe in oppressed countries to save, spend, and transfer money. Also the most laundered currency in the world is USD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I hope this is the sort of thing to finally bring crypto crashing down for good.

We have an unsustainable energy sponge whose only real legal use is speculative trading.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Legitimate uses for crypto: 0

There's plenty of legitimate uses for Bitcoin. Your statement screams "There's no legit use for Signal messenger because SMS exists". Just because it could be used by nefarious people doesn't negate it's use by normal people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your statement screams

...something that's not similar/equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So a money platform that cannot be regulated/controlled by a government... is not similar to a messaging platform that cannot be regulated/controlled by a government.

You know what you're right... signal is too centralized. I'll revise my statement to Matrix. It's similar to Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

this will only work if its accepted on the other side.

whats wrong with gold? they running out?

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234 11 points 1 month ago

Russia is having a war against inflation and they are not controlling it well. Because there is a shortage of manpower due to the war and that causes wage increases which means an increase in things in a cycle that if you don't manage it well, it will explode in your face.

Added to this is the fact that it has a higher war expenditure than its monetary reserves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

An unfortunate smelting accident