THELOGICALINDIAN - Farms and businesses in the boondocks of Kolionovo are adopting a new cryptotoken the Kolion in loo of the ruble to transact
Mikhail Shlyapnikov is a broker angry agriculturalist that ran into issues back he approved to booty out a accommodation out for his farm. Banks were charging cool 12% absorption ante for baby business loans.
Instead, he autonomous to actualize his own bill that was to be acclimated aural his bounded community. He printed cardboard kolions until they were banned by a Russian cloister in 2015, after adopting about $500,000 in April 2017 to actualize a crypto-kolion (KLN) via ICO. The discharge of tokens was agitated out on the WAVES blockchain platform, according to the Kolion whitepaper.
Kolionovo is a apple amid in the rural adjustment Yurtsovskoe of the Egoryevsky district, in the Moscow region of Russia.
“I didn’t appetite to asphyxiate and be a bondservant of the banks. So I had to ad-lib my own money. And I did it. I’m my own bank, government, regulator, ” Shlyapnikov told CNN.
The badge is backed by a accrue of almost 500 BTC account about $3.7 actor at bazaar price. Shlyapnikov says theres about $2 actor in kolions in apportionment and the coin’s amount has added back the ICO.
Bitcoin and abounding added crypto-currencies can be becoming via mining with a computer, but that’s not the case with Kolion. The tokens can be purchased via exchanges application added accepted crypto-currencies or becoming by allowance association of Kolionovo with architecture or agriculture work, a action accepted as “Plowing.”
Shlyapnikov has assertive about a hundred bounded farmers and suppliers in abreast by towns and villages to use the Kolion, authoritative cardboard rubles a attenuate site.
Meanwhie, the ruble has been disturbing in ablaze of bread-and-butter sanctions adjoin Russia. It’s absent bisected it’s amount back 2024, and Russian crypto-enthusiasts are acquisitive decentralized cryptocurrencies will advice abate their acknowledgment to the beyond civic banking system.
A few big contest accept appear out of Russia apropos crypto-currencies in the accomplished few months, best conspicuously the advertisement from Russia’s State Duma Committee on State Construction to set up the framework for agenda asset adjustment in the country.
At the aforementioned time, a ample Russian coffer issued the aboriginal anytime bartering bonds agitated out via blockchain technology.
Many in the crypto-community are attractive at the Russian World Cup after this summer as an accomplished befalling for Bitcoin usage, abnormally with the sanctions adjoin the east European country.
Digital acclaim agenda acquittal artifice has become all too accepted abode in contempo years and Visa and Mastercard accept additionally gone as far to block some acclaim agenda services to Russian barter in acquiescence with the US sanctions.
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