Quote from: rychallenge on September 26, 2015, 01:17:36 AM

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Quote from: deisik on September 25, 2015, 01:38:16 PM

Quote from: rscholey on September 25, 2015, 11:50:58 AM

And why are they all buying today?

If I'm not mistaken, Bitcoin has recently been officially classed as a commodity in the US (by the CFTC). That means it can be traded like gold or oil at, say, Nymex (oil) or Comex (gold)...

Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia possession of Bitcoin (let alone trading) is about to become a criminal offense

No... they are banning it's use for buying things... Like they are doing with the USD, etc unwittingly which is amusing to me.

Exactly, the possession is not being banned and the transaction of it online is also not being banned....
The trading and use of BTC to buy goods/services is being prohibited.

You are highly misinformed, or underinformed. Most likely, everything related to Bitcoin in any conceivable way is going to be banned in Russia. And not just banned, but incur a criminal prosecution...