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Protesters in Belarus receive donations in cryptocurrency. What does Moscow answer?
With any attempt to understand the domestic legislative logic of Homo Cogitare (thinking person) experiences a nervous tick. You do not have to be surprised, because this logic, at least externally, resembles some kind of wise sabotage army operation.
Let us, for example, stretched to a five -year period of ordeal associated with the state’s attempt to decide in their attitude to the cryptocurrency economy.
When it seemed to everyone that legislative thought was finally taking shape and matured, instead of the law, we received an incomprehensible stuffing of May 14: the press flowed into the press (I have no doubt) the letter of the Chairman of the State Duma in the financial market of Comrade Comrade. A. G. Aksakova to the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Comrade. M. G. Reshetnikov. The letter sounded a proposal to speak about the second reading of the draft law “On digital financial assets” (Tsf), as well as draft three new laws: “On digital currency”, “On amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation” and “On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses” (read “Seven -cuisine for cue ball?”).
From this package of authorized rumors, the public learned two key circumstances:
cryptocurrencies are outlawed, and cryptotototototototokene are subject to regulation;
Whoever does not agree, will receive a fine of 500 thousand rubles to 1 million or a shaped expirpens from 4 to 7 years, depending on the damage caused or profitable.
Everyone already guessed about the first circumstance, because it indirectly follows from the Constitution (it was in the old one, and has been preserved in the new one), but the second was, as it was now clear, “reconnaissance in battle”, that is, checking a public reaction to determine the boundaries for pushing.
I have already analyzed this chimeric structure in the replica “who will be put behind the crypt” - the meaninglessness of the legislative body movements lay on the surface.
The fact is that there is no conceptual difference between “cryptocurrency”, “cryptocurrent” and “cryptotototototototo” in nature. If desired, any so -called Cryptocurrency can be calculated by "cryptototototototototo" and vice versa. Just because both of these concepts convey the same reality: the mechanics of the functioning of any public blockchain.
The division into “crypto acts” and “cryptotototototoken” was born in 2016 as a trick invented by starters in order to collect money from investors and not fall under the sanctions of the American Commission on Securities and Exchanges (Sec). It seemed to everyone then that
If you rename the “currency” into “token”, it, as it were, will cease to be secrety (that is, a security) and will turn into utility (element of the system functioning).
I must say that in four years, the SEC has not decided what to consider token and what is currency, therefore it still acts selectively: it punishes some (like Telegram), others have mercy (like EOS).
In any case, all these subtleties have the slightest attitude to the Russian Federation, because we do not have American legislation on exchanges, nor Haui test, no blockchain industry, nor the abundance of blockchains and crypto projects. Russian experts working in the field of crypto industry, but they all work abroad for a long time.
Accordingly, all this tragicomedy with cryptoculance reflects not real attempts to create a legally defined framework for business, but a painful attempt by lawmakers to understand what they are trying to regulate.
The Duma people instinctively gave free rein to the genetic-historical inconceivated zaregulem of the fourth stage, so we received not a law at the beginning of summer, but a May leak with fines and a “seven”.
Since experts and experts perfectly understood that there was no difference between “tokens” and “currencies”, they immediately realized that they would winger everyone in a row, and they were indignant quite violently. And on July 22, 2020, the Duma adopted, the Council supported, and the president signed the law “On digital financial assets, digital currency and amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation”, in which, although there was a ban of “cryptocurrencies” (with the resolution of “cryptototoxes”), however, the specific sizes of fines and gloomy “seven” disappeared.
“Organization of release and (or) issue, organization of circulation of digital currency in the Russian Federation are regulated in accordance with federal laws,” it is written in Article 14, clause 4 of the CFA, while there are no federal laws on the circulation of digital currency in the Russian Federation. The public realized that again some tricky multi-income was played out, and lurked in anticipation of the continuation.
The continuation did not force himself to wait. The other day, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation was sent to those who need (“interested departments”), amendments to the law on the TsFA, in which I-Ai-Ai-ai measure for those who refuse to understand the difference between “cryptocurrencies” and “cryptototototoxenes” specified.
The TIK, mentioned at the beginning of the replica, was born from Dejavu: the same recommendations are given in the amendments of the Ministry of Finance that were in the May letter of the make-up:
Citizens are a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles. a fine and up to seven years in prison;
Yurlitsy - a fine of up to 1 million rubles.
Now the most interesting: why now?! After all, it was already in May. Then there was a public discussion and condemnation. Then they adopted the law without atrocities. And suddenly at the beginning of September - all in the second circle, and even in the old format: cooking amendments intended for the competent authorities, however, publicized in the form of an authorized leak.
I am far from the desire to establish (guess) any causal relationship. A stranger soul is dark. But I believe that we are obliged
The natural process of understanding the power of the real threat that the cryptocurrency carries it.
The reality of this threat became obvious to unbearable after the non-profit “Belarusian Solidarity Fund” Bysol, which collected 1 million 633 thousand euros (at the time of writing this article), actively earned in the Netherlands to support “everyone who has lost their beliefs and who wants to live in free and democratic Belarus”.
Bysol promises to provide compensation to each repressed in the amount of 1,500 euros (500 euros x 3 months).
And then the most unpleasant begins: “The authorities are actively cutting off the receipts from foreign accounts, conduct searches on the border in order to prevent the currency. Therefore, we decided to use Bitcoin as a transport, ”said one of the co-founders of Bysol, Yaroslav Likhachevsky, in the world-the founder of the development company on the basis of the artificial intelligence of Deepdee (the second co-founder is his partner Alexei Kuzmenkov).
So you understand? Money to support the employees of state enterprises, civil servants and security officials who left their positions because of disagreement with the actions of the current government, gather around the world through traditional online channels (Facebook, PayPal, Revolution and so on, then transferred to the addressees to their cryptocurrencies and traditional banking channels. Kesha, which are not difficult to block for power structures.
In other words,
For the first time in the territory of the former USSR, cryptocurrency is used for its intended purpose.
This appointment was announced a long time ago, at the time of Bitcoin in 2009. However, the real understanding of this threat to the state authorities came only today.
From what has been said, you can make two assumptions:
In Belarus, most likely in the near future, Decree No. 8 (“On the Development of a Digital Economy”) legalizing the cryptocurrency operations for individuals for individuals will be suspended;
In the Russian Federation, amendments recommended by the Ministry of Finance will be adopted unconditionally. As soon, it will depend on the further development of events in Belarus.
In any case, the cryptocurrency beast finally ripped off the mask and showed the CIS states his true face (unfortunately, still anonymous), so the confrontation that I had warned about for many years in a row comes to a completely different qualitative level. I think the "seven" is still seeds. Further in our weights will be much cooler.