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Russian lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow businesses to use crypto currencies in international trade, as part of efforts to skirt Western sanctions imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. From a report:

The law is expected to go into force in September, and Russian central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, one of the backers of the new law, said the first transactions in cryptocurrencies will take place before the end of the year. Russia has faced significant delays in international payments with major trading partners such as China, India and the United Arab Emirates after banks in those countries, under pressure from Western regulators, became more cautious.

"We are taking a historic decision in the financial sphere," the head of the Duma lower house of parliament, Anatoly Aksakov, told lawmakers. Under the new law, the central bank will create a new "experimental" infrastructure for cryptocurrency payments. Details of the infrastructure have yet to be announced.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your statement screams

...something that's not similar/equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So a money platform that cannot be regulated/controlled by a government... is not similar to a messaging platform that cannot be regulated/controlled by a government.

You know what you're right... signal is too centralized. I'll revise my statement to Matrix. It's similar to Matrix.