Anton Siluanov – Russian Finance Minister – believes that local financial institutions should have universal licenses to facilitate crypto trading services, in his view appearing far from the central bank’s proposal to ban it. Completely prohibit all operations on digital assets.
a few weeks ago The Central Bank of Russiacall forThe government has an order prohibiting all use of digital assets within its territory. The institute argued that bitcoin and altcoins were a warning to the chainsaw scheme. and undermine the sovereignty of monetary policy. and threaten the local financial system.
According to a February 3 report ministerThe Russian Treasury – Anton Siluanov – supports the idea of optimizing the regulatory framework. more than a Chinese-made ban In a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, he suggested that local banks should be allowed to organize digital asset services. cryptocurrencies It must be treated the same as investing in gold or other precious metals.
However, the Russian Finance Minister and the country’s central bank share some similar views. They both think digital assets cannot be used as legal money within state borders.
Siluanov noted that local investors own around 2 trillion rubles ($26 billion) of crypto, his assumptions differ greatly from forecasts released by the Russian government earlier this week. It states that Russians own approximately $215 billion in digital assets, accounting for 12% of the total market capitalization.
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