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Russia Intends Using Stablecoins to Bypass Western Penalties

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Russia is progressing with its plan of bypassing penalties. Vice Finance Minister Alexy Mioseyev revealed today that the nation is trying to experiment with stablecoins as a means of payment ally nations.

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This news quoted Mioseyev saying that Russia is taking steps to develop a bilateral platform with tokenized assets like the Tether USDT and Circle USDC. Eventually, this will give them the chance to do without the United State dollar and Euros. These tokens are designed to be constant in value, dissimilar to other electronic assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum which are very volatile in value.

However, Mioseyev’s comment on Tuesday didn’t reveal what currency the intended tokenized instrument will be pegged to.

Russia Intends Using Stablecoins to Bypass Western Penalties

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Furthermore, Tass included that the Vice Finance Minister is expecting to solve problems concerning related international payments using crypto during this autumn session. Ever since Russia attacked Ukraine the west has placed serious penalties on Russia, for its actions. Consequently, these sanctions have been affecting the country’s economy negatively.

For years Russia has been discussing cryptocurrency. However, the nation’s stand concerning electronic currency has been heterogeneous. Nevertheless, in the year 2019, the country’s leadership begin investigating Bitcoin as a means of bypassing United State penalties.

Also, in January this year, President Putin remarked that Russia could perform quite well mining the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. However, in July He also append a law that prohibits citizens of Russia from making payments using cryptocurrency.

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