Deputy Finance Minister of Russia Compared Bitcoin and "Monopoly"

[coincrypto]

The Deputy Finance Minister of Russia, Alexei Moiseyev, recently stated payments with Bitcoin will not be legalized in Russia and making transactions via Bitcoin should be considered similar to playing the board game “Monopoly”.

He stated:

"I encourage all your readers to pay attention to this: you have rights to buy real estate, for example, for the cards from Monopoly, but thus you are deprived of any legal protection, and you also violate the constitutional principle that the national the currency is the ruble.”

The full article: https://coinidol.com/deputy-finance-min ... -monopoly/

[JOCORR]

I have lots of real estate in the US that I will gladly sell on bitcoin

[Berkor]

Yes, it's interesting news but I don't think it's still relevant. They will also develop their own cryptocurrency. Any country will to cryptocurrency sooner or later.

[CryptoBlackHat]

I'm not familiar with the regulatory structure in Russia, but I'm curious about how a transaction could be considered invalid if there's a contract drawn up stating that the compensation will be in cryptocurrencies.

In some countries, for example, it's common to do a "house swap" where you draw up a contract to swap two houses of similar value (with perhaps a small monetary compensation for one party). How would this be different to a sale facilitated through Bitcoin?

[OneChain]

Are they try to manipulate the prices again?