Russian Minister: Russia Will Issue Own Cryptocurrency, CryptoRuble
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 9:26 am
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided that his country will issue its own cryptocurrency, to be called the CryptoRuble. This is according to Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, quoted in a report by Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты), a Russian language newspaper which is owned by the local government of Moscow.
In his opinion, the CryptoRuble will be issued quickly. “I so confidently declare that we will launch a cryptocurrency for one simple reason: if we do not, then in two months our neighbors in the Eurasian Economic Community will do it,” the minister said.
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