Pavel Durov called the bitcoins a chance to get out of the US dollar hegemony
By Prempal Singh
The founder of “Telegram” and “VKontakte” criticized the idea of the RF Ministry of Finance to prohibit private individuals from buying crypto currency.
Bitcoin is a chance for the global financial system to emerge from the hegemony of the United States. This opinion was expressed on his page “VKontakte” by the founder of the social network Pavel Durov.
According to the famous entrepreneur and programmer, it would be worth following Russia’sAsian countries to recognize the status of new digital currencies that are replacing the dollar.
Today the Russian media write that the Ministry of Finance suggested restricting the sale of bitcoins to private individuals and equating them to financial assets so that only qualified investors could sell them and exclusively through the Moscow stock exchange.