Quote from: vapourminer on August 15, 2017, 02:24:54 PM

Quote from: deisik on August 15, 2017, 02:16:16 PM

I can tell you that with certainty

Personal profits are on their minds exclusively. They don't care for Bitcoin, blockchain, or whatever, all what they are actually looking for is money which they could receive as budget financing if they successfully push this idea into the budget plan for the next few years. Whether it will bring anything of substance doesn't in the least interest these dudes. All the buzz words they say with such a serious tone and pompous view are said entirely with this purpose in mind

i must of missed this rumor.. could you clarify or link to it?

you mean russian government wants to mine for itself? ie budget it out (the mining farm) and all profits go to the government?

wonder if they would make it illegal for russians to mine for themselves or use others pools. mine to the russian pool or else..

I'm curious how you could miss this thread

There is also an ongoing discussion of the matter in the Russian section of the forum, and you can find it here, but you are on your own with translation. I just expressed the consensus that built up among the posters in that thread and what I myself feel like the most probable outcome of such an effort. Basically, this is how all such projects typically end up, i.e. with tax payer's money spent mostly in vain (but someone certainly ending up rich and richer)

Quote from: DooMAD on August 15, 2017, 02:44:56 PM

No, no, there have been some crossed wires here. The claim is that deisik knows with certainty that the Russian government want to make profit (which is a fair assumption, I suppose). However, deisik doesn't know with certainty how they plan on achieving that goal, but suspects it's not going to be Bitcoin. It sounds as though deisik is saying they could conceivably allocate some of their fiat budget to investigating the possibilities and, even if nothing came of it, that research money in and of itself would still be profitable for someone (not that they necessarily are doing that research, just that they could)

That seems to be the whole point, i.e. nothing will ever come out of it