The General Director “Yandex.Money” Ilya Glazachev gave an interview to the edition “businessman” in which has told about the further plans and daily work. Among other things, the interview touched upon the cryptocurrency. Glazachev told about his attitude to her, and announced that the service by and large has long been ready to work with bitcoin.
Ilya Glazachev told that blockchain sees great potential, because it may be a very promising technology in a number of ways big business and the public sector, but noted that in the loaded transactional business, where the operations themselves are atomic and only include the sender and recipient, the blockchain is irrelevant and not very applicable.
“But those same bitcoins can be used for payment, technically, “Yandex.Cashier” this has long been ready, waiting for the green signal from the regulator,” said Glazachev, continuing the theme.
He further developed the theme, comparing the modern “cryptocurrency” the situation with the early 2000-ies — then something similar happened with e-wallets. The market was new and its activities are not regulated, so it took a few years to allow existing developments to be put in order.
Glazachev am sure that sooner or later they will have to stop talking about good or bad bitcoin, starting instead to try something to do with it, to test it, run trial projects to technologically cooperate with the representatives of this sphere.
However, specific terms Glazachev, Ilya did not call. Apparently, to wait a while still have.
The General Director “Yandex.Money”: technically we are ready to work with bitcoin
Vyacheslav Larionov