THELOGICALINDIAN - The CEO of one of Russias better banks Sberbank has about aggregate his bitcoin adventures Herman Gref additionally batten about the allowances of basic currencies during a presentation for a collective activity with Google Could there be added than meets the eye
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Herman Gref Is Enjoying His ‘Game’
During his presentation on the bank’s joint activity with Google, Gref appear that he had endemic some bitcoin.
Gref aggregate about how he had to authority on to some of his bitcoin for two and a bisected months afore converting them to authorization currencies — dollars and rubles. He captivated on to the bitcoin and would alone banknote them out at a amount that was satisfactory for him.
Gref was upfront about how he sees basic currencies trading as a “game”. He talked about how he had speculated on altered basic currencies, converting them aback and alternating amid fiats.
He appropriate that bitcoin would anon become allotment of Russian society:
Gref additionally commented that bitcoin was account abundant added in the past, but now its amount has alone to about half.
Are Sberbank and Gref’s Views Being Heard?
Only in April this year, Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev was advancing to acquaint legislation that would abuse bitcoin users. The abuse would accommodate bastille agreement of up to seven years, according to Bloomberg.
Then, in October this year, Alexei Moiseev stated that:
While there are still abounding backs-and-forths and disagreements in Russia back it comes to the amends or acceptance of bitcoin, all these could change in a amount of time.
With the blockchain activity between Sberbank and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and the about-face Moiseev took with his bitcoin legislation stance, it seems acceptable that Russia is about to acceptable bitcoin with accessible arms.
In fact, Gref’s positive angle on bitcoin and blockchain technology appear the approaching developments of Russian cyberbanking arrangement may accept been a accidental agency in the Russian authorities’ amend bitcoin and its technology.
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[Disclaimer : Contains Unofficial translation- Official Source: Tass]
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