{"id":69857,"date":"2022-11-10T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=69857"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:29:40","slug":"gref-offers-recommendations-to-the-central-bank-and-government-on-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/gref-offers-recommendations-to-the-central-bank-and-government-on-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gref offers recommendations to the central bank and government on blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Sberbank, German Gref, again highlighted the promise of blockchain technology and criticised its tight regulation in Russia. He said this at the forum <a href=\\\"https:\/\/finopolis.ru\/online\/\\\">Finopolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the banker, regulatory restrictions are causing Russia to lose its competitive edge in developing this market.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>&#8220;The only thing the government can do now is give businesses the opportunity to develop these things \u2014 to stay a little behind with the regulatory portfolio, in order to see how this will be applied,&#8221; said Gref.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also added that the withdrawal of powerful foreign companies from the Russian market would have long-term negative consequences for the economy and slow the development of innovations.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in February, the head of Sberbank <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gref-backs-ban-on-cryptocurrency-payments-in-russia\">supported a ban<\/a> on cryptocurrency payments in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Gref warned that state-level restrictions on digital currencies threaten the development of blockchain and hinder realising the full potential of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, Sberbank <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sberbank-applies-to-issue-a-stablecoin\">applied to the Bank of Russia<\/a> for registration of a blockchain platform with the subsequent issuance of the Sbercoin stablecoin pegged to the ruble.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Sberbank, German Gref, once again highlighted the promise of blockchain technology and criticised its tight regulation in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69858,"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":[25,1138,36,27],"class_list":["post-69857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-opinions","tag-regulation","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\/69857","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=69857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69859,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857\/revisions\/69859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}