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Happening now: Street outside #Russia embassy in Washington, DC being renamed Boris Nemtsov Plaza in honor of the murdered critic of President Putin. who was gunned down in 2015, while walking across a bridge near the Kremlin.
Re: the Russian bridge dedication to a murdered Russian who was about to release a paper on the crimes of the Russian government in it's interventions in Ukraine
Bitcoin related:
“Bitcoin does not have the fundamental attributes needed to be a currency as it is a string of code generated by complex algorithms… But I do not deny that virtual currencies have technical value and are a type of asset,” he said.
His comments come after the Chinese central bank increased scrutiny of the country’s bitcoin exchanges earlier this year, a move that prompted the companies to stop margin lending, introduced trading fees and issue rules to rein in users.
Many governments around the world are still mulling how to regulate and classify bitcoin, whose value surged in June to hit a record just shy of $3,000. China has classified it as a “virtual good”.
Squaring in on bitcoin, Sheng said expectations that bitcoin supply would be capped in the year 2140 would make it difficult for it to become a medium of exchange that could meet modern economic development needs as money supply should be related to economic needs.
He also said that Chinese monetary authorities should study issuing a central bank virtual currency that it could regulate and run properly.
https:// www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bitcoin/bitcoin-can-be-an-asset-but-not-currency-china-central-bank-adviser-idUSKBN19S0BS?il=0
Related to: Boris Nemtzov - killed on a Bridge
Russian Embassy In Washington Now Sits On Street Named After Murdered Putin Critic
February 27th, 2018 - Daily Caller
The Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., is in the process of getting an address change — one unlikely to sit well with the Kremlin.
A section of Wisconsin Avenue, where the embassy is located, is officially being renamed Boris Nemtsov Plaza to honor the pro-democracy activist and Russian President Vladimir Putin critic gunned down outside the Kremlin three years ago, according to the Associated Press Tuesday.
The DC City Council voted unanimously last month to rename the Russian embassy-marked street after public hearings, according to multiple outlets. The decision was made on an “emergency basis” pending the passage of permanent legislation.
Nemtsov was shot and killed in February 2015 outside the Kremlin only a few hours after he called for marches to protest Russia’s military involvement in the Ukraine. The murder is largely considered the most prominent political assassination since Putin took power in the U.S.S.R. Thousands assembled in Moscow over the weekend to commemorate Nemtsov’s murder and call for Putin’s removal from office.