Russia's Finance Ministry Proposes Registering Cryptocurrency Miners and Licensing Exchanges
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Russia's Finance Ministry Proposes Registering Cryptocurrency Miners and Licensing Exchanges

THELOGICALINDIAN - At a affair of regulators on Monday the Russian Finance Ministry proposed to annals cryptocurrency miners as able-bodied as to authorization exchanges ambidextrous with them A State Duma Deputy additionally fabricated a angle to clearly approve mining in adjustment to tax miners and to alone acquiesce banks to barter cryptocurrencies to rubles

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Registering Miners & Licensing Exchanges

At the aboriginal affair of the able board on banking technologies in the State Duma on Monday, the Russian Ministry of Finance presented its recommendations on the adjustment of cryptocurrencies. “The Ministry of Finance proposes to annals those who abstract cryptocurrencies – the miners,” Tass reported, abacus that “the appointment additionally proposes to authorization sites area agenda bill is exchanged for acceptable banknote or non-cash money.”

Speaking on account of the accounts ministry, Yana Pureskina, the ministry’s Director of the Financial Policy Department, was quoted saying:

She added emphasized that the admiral “considers it expedient to alpha attached the cardinal of bodies who accept the appropriate to affair cryptocurrency, acknowledged entities, and alone entrepreneurs,” Tass detailed. This is in adjustment to “protect the rights of bazaar participants,” the administrator explained.

Proposals for Mining and Exchanging Cryptocurrencies

Russia's Finance Ministry Proposes Registering Cryptocurrency Miners and Licensing ExchangesAt the aforementioned affair on Monday, Martin Shakkum, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Industry Construction and High Technologies, said that “it is all-important to legalize” mining activities because currently “those who accord with them do not pay taxes,” RBC reported.

In addition, he proposed that to alone acquiesce banks and banking institutions to barter cryptocurrencies for rubles and added authorization money. According to him, “these measures will accomplish the about-face of the cryptocurrencies cellophane and will accredit [the government] to analyze their owners,” the advertisement wrote, and quoted him saying:

He acclaimed that cryptocurrency exchanges and antecedent bread offerings (ICOs) should both be included in the legislation.

Cryptocurrencies and their Derivatives

At the Russian Derivatives Market appointment on Tuesday, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia, Sergey Shvetsov, said “Russia’s Central Bank welcomes arty any restrictions on operations of alien websites that action cryptocurrency sales,” according to Tass.

“We accede all cryptocurrency derivatives to be a abrogating development on the Russian bazaar and do not accede it accessible to abutment it,” he added. This followed the axial bank’s efforts to stop one of the country’s above clearinghouses from facilitating the allowance and adjustment of cryptocurrency derivatives.

As for cryptocurrencies themselves, the accounts ministry’s position is “consistent with the assessment of the Coffer of Russia,” the advertisement detailed. The arch of Russia’s axial bank, Elvira Nabiullina, has again said that the coffer does not abutment the amends of cryptocurrencies as a accepted agency of payment. At the Monday meeting, Pureskina concurred, advertence that “regarding the use of cryptocurrency as a acquittal medium, we are rather aloof – rather, on the prohibition position.”

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