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The Russian government keeps insisting that payments in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin would ruin its financial system.
Amid El Salvador officially accepting Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender on Tuesday, Sept. 7, the Russian government has reiterated its negative stance to a scenario where BTC could be accepted as an official currency.
Dmitry Peskov, the official representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, claimed that Russia has no reason to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender, local news agency RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday.
The Kremlin representative argued that putting cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin in line with traditional money instruments would bring nothing but detriments to the countryâs financial and economic system.
âClearly, Russia is not ready for such moves,â Peskov reportedly declared.
Peskovâs latest remarks come in line with the Russian governmentâs long-running skeptical approach to Bitcoin, echoing a similar statement by Anatoly Aksakov, a member of the State Duma and a key architect of Russiaâs ban on cryptocurrency payments. Last August, Aksakov argued that accepting cryptocurrency as payment would essentially mean the âdestruction of a financial system.â
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Russia officially banned cryptocurrency payments in the country as part of the countryâs major crypto law, âOn Digital Financial Assets,â in January 2021. The law does not prohibit Russians from purchasing or trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. In May 2021, some Russian lawmakers were reportedly weighing a partial reversal of the crypto payment ban, considering amendments to allow crypto payments as a âcontractual medium.â
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