The first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Shvetsov said in an interview that many people are invested in financial pyramids, such as Bitcoin. He noted that no one will protect the buyers of digital assets.
“buying the same bitcoin, a person joins a minefield, where, besides himself, he has no one to count on. Do not go to where you are not under the protection of the Russian Federation, where your money will just be taken away and you are nothing with You can not do this, “said the deputy chairman of the Central Bank.
Shvetsov argues that many “waiting for rabid yields” are invested in cryptocurrency, selling their property or taking money from relatives. The deputy chairman of the Central Bank called a big trouble that Russians are not familiar with the rules of the capital market.
The Central Bank does not plan to legalize Bitcoin, following the example of Elvira Nabiullina earlier, the chairman of the Elvira Nabiullin regulator. According to her, the Central Bank refers to digital assets “sufficiently restrained.”
“This is a monetary surrogate, and we are against cryptocurrencies as private digital, even their money I want to call them, used for calculations within the country,” said Nabiullin.