{"id":39092,"date":"2021-03-17T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39092"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:54:57","slug":"saint-petersburg-assembly-chief-bitcoin-is-not-a-peoples-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/saint-petersburg-assembly-chief-bitcoin-is-not-a-peoples-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Petersburg Assembly Chief: Bitcoin is not a &#8216;people&#8217;s currency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The chairman of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Vyacheslav Makarov, said that he has never owned bitcoins and believes that cryptocurrency is not a &#8216;people&#8217;s currency&#8217;, according to <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.fontanka.ru\/2021\/03\/17\/69816920\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Fontanka<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">&#8220;Digital currency is an asset for those who understand it well and who deal with it professionally. I have never owned this, and I am sure that I will never own it,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">During Wednesday&#8217;s session, March 17, lawmakers backed in principle a bill obliging officials and deputies to report on their holdings of cryptocurrencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier in December last year, President Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/putin-signs-decree-requiring-officials-to-declare-cryptocurrency-holdings\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">signed an order<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">, which obliges officials and candidates for relevant positions to provide information on their digital financial assets (DFA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The media also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-russian-presidential-and-parliamentary-candidates-to-be-obliged-to-disclose-cryptocurrency-deals\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> that the Ministry of Labour has prepared a bill on mandatory declarations of DFA transactions and digital currencies for candidates for elected offices.<\/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\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Vyacheslav Makarov, said he has never owned bitcoins and believes that cryptocurrency is not a &#8216;people&#8217;s currency&#8217;, Fontanka reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39093,"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":[1848,558],"class_list":["post-39092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-saint-petersburg","tag-taxes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092","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=39092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39094,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092\/revisions\/39094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}