Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are central to Russia's strategy for bypassing Western sanctions, enabling international trade despite financial restrictions.
The multitude strategies within crypto are a major tool not only to provide the foundation of worldwide independent trade making it more efficient but is permeating financial, and wealth management industries for greater sustainability and the expansion of the marketplace.
Booming? Seriously? We must be living in parallel universes.
There are, as far as I know, no straightforward, legal ways to either buy or transact in crypto in Russia. In fact, I am pretty sure it’s illegal to accept crypto as payment for goods or services (they’ve been talking about carving out an exception for export businesses, but even that has not been finalized).
None of the serious exchanges, even when they accept Russian citizens/residents as clients (which few do) will convert anything to rubles (they are afraid of sanctions), so the only way is to go p2p. According to my expat contacts living in Russia and struggling to transfer money there, even a couple of p2p transactions will get your Russian bank card blocked and you’ll have to visit a branch for a stern lecture, where they’ll tell you to stop doing anything with crypto or they’ll close your account
Russian banks are resisting crypto as hard as they can, because it threatens their power. Most government ministries are also hostile. They don’t want any alternatives. For now, crypto exists in a grey zone where it is effectively neither legal nor illegal, but in any case, very hard to do anything with
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The multitude strategies within crypto are a major tool not only to provide the foundation of worldwide independent trade making it more efficient but is permeating financial, and wealth management industries for greater sustainability and the expansion of the marketplace.
Booming? Seriously? We must be living in parallel universes.
There are, as far as I know, no straightforward, legal ways to either buy or transact in crypto in Russia. In fact, I am pretty sure it’s illegal to accept crypto as payment for goods or services (they’ve been talking about carving out an exception for export businesses, but even that has not been finalized).
None of the serious exchanges, even when they accept Russian citizens/residents as clients (which few do) will convert anything to rubles (they are afraid of sanctions), so the only way is to go p2p. According to my expat contacts living in Russia and struggling to transfer money there, even a couple of p2p transactions will get your Russian bank card blocked and you’ll have to visit a branch for a stern lecture, where they’ll tell you to stop doing anything with crypto or they’ll close your account
Russian banks are resisting crypto as hard as they can, because it threatens their power. Most government ministries are also hostile. They don’t want any alternatives. For now, crypto exists in a grey zone where it is effectively neither legal nor illegal, but in any case, very hard to do anything with