It will actually be more of a hindrance to the long term success of cryptocurrency if Russia started using it more in an attempt to bypass sanctions or earn new sources of revenue. It would slowly bring the attention of more politicians if they discovered it was supplying a source of revenue,
I think many politicians are already well aware of cryptocurrencies and its implications if used. Some of them probably use it already but in secret and the decentralized nature of crypto plays largely to their advantage.
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or way for them to move around money outside of the traditional banking system which has them pretty cut off.
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They will only start acting once they find out that some people from the government other than them has started using crypto. They just don’t want to be one upped and any concern they will raise are just futile excuses.