THELOGICALINDIAN - At the 2024 St Petersburg International Bread-and-butter Forum SPIEF Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ethereum architect Vitalik Buterin Putin additionally batten about Russias bread-and-butter ameliorate and the agenda abridgement while the axial coffer discussed bitcoins taxation and its own agenda currency
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St Petersburg International Economic Forum
An anniversary accident captivated back 1997, SPIEF is abounding by business and accounts leaders in Russia and from all about the world. It is “dedicated to the altercation of key bread-and-butter issues adverse Russia, arising markets and the apple in general,” states the official website of the President of Russia. The affair of this year’s forum, captivated from June 1 to June 3, is “In chase of a new antithesis in the all-around economy.”
Buterin was a apostle in the session called “Blockchain – the bearing of the new economy” and a panelist in the session called “The atomic appulse of blockchain technology.” First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Central Bank Deputy Governor Olga Skorobogatova were additionally panelists in the aforementioned session.
Skorobogatova confirmed during the accident that the axial coffer is developing its own agenda bill while drafting a proposal to accede bitcoin a agenda asset which will be burdened as such. She additionally afresh announced a collective pilot activity amid the axial coffer and the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) to use blockchain technology for banking services.
Also at the accident was above Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin. He told RT that he sees the use of bitcoin accretion in the advancing years.
Putin’s Meeting with Buterin
According to the Russian President’s official website, Putin met with Buterin on June 2. “The chat was captivated afterward the President’s affair with active of above adopted companies and business associations,” the website states, abacus that:
Buterin confirmed the altercation on Reddit, advertence that “it was a abrupt chat at the end of a clandestine CEO meeting.”
Russia’s Economic Reform Plan and Digital Economy
Putin said in a altered SPIEF affair that Russia’s approaching lies in developing the agenda economy. However, he did not accept any abundant or accomplished affairs for the country’s bread-and-butter ameliorate to share.
The development of avant-garde technology or “hi-tech” is actuality discussed aural the EAEC, TASS reported. The First Deputy Prime Minister said at the above blockchain console altercation that Putin “takes appropriate interest” in hi-tech and the agenda economy. Some bounded publications reported that the hi-tech Putin was apropos to includes blockchain and Bitcoin. Shuvalov said:
Citing Putin’s compassionate that hi-tech and the agenda abridgement activation advance rates, Shuvalov added, “It is not an adornment to say that the admiral is foolishly addicted of it.”
Below is the video of the console altercation with Buterin (in Russian).
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