The government has estimated Russians' assets in cryptocurrency at 16.5 trillion rubles (about $214 billion). This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to two interlocutors involved in the development of measures to regulate the market.
This is about 12% of the world's cryptocurrency assets — $ 1.78 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap. “The indicator was estimated a month ago using the analysis of the IP addresses of the largest users of cryptocurrencies and other data,” Bloomberg sources said.
They admitted that the real values may be higher than this estimate due to the use of VPNs and other data protection methods by investors.
At the same time, Russian officials and deputies previously gave lower numbers. Anatoly Aksakov, head of the Duma committee on the financial market, said in December that the Russians had invested about 5 trillion rubles in cryptocurrency. Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Sergey Shvetsov estimated the amount of crypto assets of Russians at 7 trillion in the fall.
In January, the Central Bank proposed to ban cryptocurrencies and their mining in Russia. The Ministry of Finance and Rosfinmonitoring did not support this idea and advocated the regulation of cryptocurrencies.
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