{"id":45839,"date":"2021-07-09T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45839"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:18:31","slug":"bank-of-russia-says-major-economies-will-not-legalise-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bank-of-russia-says-major-economies-will-not-legalise-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Russia says major economies will not legalise Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major economies will not legalise Bitcoin, as this would pose risks to financial stability. This was stated by the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, Alexei Zabotkin, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/11867809\\\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his words, it is unlikely that countries will follow El Salvador&#8217;s path, where the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/el-salvador-passes-bill-recognizing-bitcoin-as-legal-tender\">was recognised as an official means of payment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;I don&#8217;t think any major economy will go down that path,\\&#8221; said Zabotkin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also stressed that the Bank of Russia regards cryptocurrencies as digital monetary surrogates, and the only legal means of payment in Russia is the ruble.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-opposes-use-of-unclear-bitcoin\">spoke against<\/a> the use of cryptocurrencies for settlements between citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major economies will not legalise Bitcoin, as this would pose risks to financial stability. This was stated by the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, Alexei Zabotkin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45840,"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":[345,18,27],"class_list":["post-45839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-russia","tag-bitcoin","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45841,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45839\/revisions\/45841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}