Quote from: Peter R on January 18, 2014, 10:01:14 PM

Quote from: piramida on January 18, 2014, 11:43:39 AM

Quote from: fr33d0miz3r on January 18, 2014, 08:49:57 AM

As I promised, I've translated the most interesting parts of that Russian document.

... every blockchain transaction has to get Putin's [ECDSA] signature approval to go through in Russia. Bad day for bitcoin.

That's what I thought the first time I read it, but my Russian is only so-so. Upon a re-read, I noticed that what you mentioned was just one of the proposals. The Kremlin decided upon the tribute system to 1PutinCqxzqzMNSCLKRAC1S5H6tYrAdzsm, as it was a more "decentralized" solution that they thought better adhered to the spirit of bitcoin.

Still pretty bad news I think.

Quote from: piramida on January 18, 2014, 08:46:18 PM

Quote from: Peter R on January 18, 2014, 08:23:24 PM

Putin is clearly co-opting bitcoin in Russia Wink

Also the address already has 1 mBTC sent to it which definitely makes it legitimate, this was the first ever russian bitcoin transaction since the real news from sources were announced.

Yes, and last I checked that transaction already had 11 confirmations. At this rate, I bet this entire thread will be highly confirmed by tomorrow.

I confirm this, that makes it at least 12