{"id":2359,"date":"2016-06-01T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2018-08-17T18:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:31:26","slug":"russian-internet-ombudsman-calls-bitcoin-banning-attempts-downright-ludicrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russian-internet-ombudsman-calls-bitcoin-banning-attempts-downright-ludicrous\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Internet Ombudsman Calls Bitcoin Banning Attempts ‘Downright Ludicrous’"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Dmitry Marinichev<\/strong>, Russia’s Internet ombudsman, the government’s attempts to interfere in the development of blockchain technology, and to ban bitcoins, are totally meaningless.
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Speaking at the roundtable on Perspectives of Implementation and Development of Blockchain Technology in Russia, he said:<\/p>\n

“Determining the very technology and banning bitcoin on the government level, as it’s done in Russia, is downright ludicrous. I can agree with any of my fellow citizens or a U.S. citizen to sell my apartment for ten kisses, and no one can prohibit me to use this ‘cryptocurrency’, it would be a decisively confirmed currency.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marinichev also noted that the government should do its best to promote innovative technologies.<\/p>\n

“An effect on business is possible only if we integrate the very position of a distributed record in the legislation. It’s mostly similar to legalizing accountancy with double recording between two legal entities,”<\/strong>he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier, Russian parliament member Andrei Lugovoy spoke in defense<\/a> of cryptocurrencies. He also initiated a conference on digital currencies set to be held at the State Duma<\/a> on June 2. Russia’s main bitcoin and blockchain evangelist, German Gref, the head of Sberbank,\u00a0said at his lecture in Skolkovo<\/a> that Russia will experience regress if bitcoin trading becomes subject to penalties.<\/p>\n

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