At last week's St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Putin talked to Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. Buterin's family emigrated from Russia to Canada when he was six. There, the math whiz got interested in Bitcoin while still in his teens. read more
I don’t think the Kremlin is buying ETH, but it is likely that Russia is developing a national digital currency. The deputy chief of Bank of Russia, Olga Skorobogatova, made the following statement: "Regulators of all countries agree that it’s time to develop national cryptocurrencies, this is the future. read more