{"id":33828,"date":"2020-12-23T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T07:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=33828"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:50:33","slug":"peter-aven-explains-why-he-does-not-believe-in-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/peter-aven-explains-why-he-does-not-believe-in-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Aven Explains Why He Does Not Believe in Cryptocurrencies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Peter Aven, the chairman of Alfa-Bank&#8217;s board, said he does not believe in cryptocurrencies, and he described the tightening of legislation in this area as &#8216;completely natural&#8217;. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u201cNo government \u2014 as I was taught, at least in university \u2014 will allow a parallel currency. It undermines the main currency, so today I still do not believe in cryptocurrency as a means of payment in real life or as a store of value,\u201d Aven said in an interview with <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/finances\/23\/12\/2020\/5fe1a5db9a7947dec65117e7\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u0420\u0411\u041a<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">He also said that the introduction of a digital ruble will pose a challenge for many banks. According to Aven, it is not yet clear how its issuance will affect \\&#8221;including funding\\&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\\&#8221;But avoiding this is impossible, and it requires reflection,\\&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, Aven said that he had never invested in digital currencies and <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">did not believe in their future<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Aven, chairman of Alfa-Bank&#8217;s board, said he does not believe in cryptocurrencies, and he described the tightening of legislation in this area as &#8216;completely natural&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1138],"class_list":["post-33828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"46","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33830,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions\/33830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}