{"id":86441,"date":"2023-11-01T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T07:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86441"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:39:48","slug":"russias-cryptocurrency-transactions-triple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russias-cryptocurrency-transactions-triple\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s cryptocurrency transactions triple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From January to September 2023, the number of cryptocurrency transactions in Russia exceeded 185,000, three times the level for the same period last year (60,000). This is reported, citing a statement by Yuri Chikhanchin, director of Rosfinmonitoring, by <a href=\"https:\/\/1prime.ru\/cripta\/20231101\/842138127.html\">\u00abPrime\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the volume of operations nearly doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Chikhanchin noted that alongside ordinary citizens, cryptocurrencies are actively used by \u201cdrug traffickers, terrorists and corrupt officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, he called for swifter introduction of market regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier officials attributed the heightened Russian interest in digital assets to sanctions. Against this backdrop, Russian banks began <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-banks-begin-testing-tracking-of-bitcoin-transactions\">testing tracking<\/a> of transactions and intend to scale the practice nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to Transparency International Russia, Russians began purchasing through darknet Wirex accounts <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-russians-buy-wirex-accounts-on-the-dark-web-for-crypto-operations-in-the-eu\">for crypto operations in the EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to September 2023, the number of cryptocurrency transactions in Russia exceeded 185,000, three times the figure for the same period last year (60,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,27],"class_list":["post-86441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86441","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=86441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86443,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86441\/revisions\/86443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}