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$13 billion transactions Cryptocurrency increasing in Russia 2023

By Setmynews.com Date 13/03/2023

A report shows Yury Chikhanchin, director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation

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(Rosfinmonitoring), has informed President Vladimir Putin about the volume of Crypto transactions in Russia is increasing.

Yury Chikhanchin, director

This data is derived from the activities of over 25,000 participants in crypto transactions

Of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation (Rosfinmonitoring) says that cryptocurrency

Turnover today is more than 630,000 bitcoins and the amount of Bitcoins near to $13 billion in fiat equivalent.

In a report, the Bank of Russia, in 2021, quoted that the annual volume of crypto transactions made by Russians at the time was around $5 billion.

Also, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation has carried out about 120 crypto-related investigations and initiated over 60 criminal cases.

The current price of Bitcoin is around $22,459, and still, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been completely untrustworthy currency.