{"id":49029,"date":"2021-09-07T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49029"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:34:50","slug":"peskov-russia-is-unequivocally-not-ready-to-recognise-bitcoin-as-a-means-of-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/peskov-russia-is-unequivocally-not-ready-to-recognise-bitcoin-as-a-means-of-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Peskov: Russia is unequivocally not ready to recognise Bitcoin as a means of payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising Bitcoin as a means of payment in Russia would only harm the financial system, said Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the Russian president. This was reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20210907\/bitkoin-1749000319.html\\\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>He called Bitcoin a \\&#8221;quasi-currency\\&#8221; and said that Russia is \\&#8221;undoubtedly not ready\\&#8221; to recognise the first cryptocurrency as a means of payment.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;There is not the slightest reason to take such steps,\\&#8221; Peskov said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>He said that de facto equating cryptocurrency with monetary instruments \\&#8221;can bring nothing but harm to the financial and economic system.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Bank of Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-says-major-economies-will-not-legalise-bitcoin\">called it unlikely<\/a> that countries with large economies would follow El Salvador&#8217;s path, where the first cryptocurrency was recognised as an official means of payment.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On 7 September in El Salvador, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/el-salvador-legalises-bitcoin-as-government-buys-550-btc\">the law took effect<\/a> recognizing Bitcoin as a legal means of payment.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/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 crypto news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising Bitcoin as a means of payment in Russia would only harm the financial system, said Dmitry Peskov, the president&#8217;s press secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49030,"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":[1451,1138,27],"class_list":["post-49029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-regulation-in-russia","tag-opinions","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029","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=49029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49031,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49029\/revisions\/49031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}