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Bitcoin: Putin wants to tax bitcoin, cryptocurrency mining

Posted: January 12th, 2018, 12:29 pm
by NewsEditor
Putin wants to tax bitcoin, cryptocurrency mining & regulate initial coin offerings
  • Putin ask the Russian government to create laws governing status of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and mining etc. by July 2018.
  • Miners of digital/virtual currencies will have to register and pay taxes.
  • Putin also wants regulation of ICOs (initial coin offerings), taking as a basis the practice of initial public offerings (IPOs).
  • Similar view was taken by the US regulators in July 2017.
  • To date, cryptocurrencies in Russia are not officially regulated.
  • The Ministry of Finance has suggested introducing mandatory registration of cryptocurrency miners and only to allow legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to participate.
Read the full article at RT.com here:
https://www.rt.com/business/407631-puti ... egulation/

Last updated: October 24th, 2017.