The news that Russia will have “scriptural”, went for a long time, but the representatives of the Central Bank argued that talking about the legalization of cryptocurrencies and their introduction into circulation on the territory of Russia is premature, but today it became known that work is already underway. About it “Interfax” said the Chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova.
“A digital currency created in Russia, will allow to use funds on the level of new technologies. To virtual of the national currency, we’ll get there, we have already started working,” she said during her speech at the international economic forum in St. Petersburg.
Skorobogatova said that the interest in new financial instruments in the world increases, so you need to pay attention to them, because now this theme is actively developed, so the Central Bank decided to study the issue in detail, considering all its pros and cons. Several days earlier the Central Bank had proposed to classify the cryptocurrency equating them to digital goods.
The Central Bank began to study the possibility of creating a national cryptocurrency
Vyacheslav Larionov