Three Ukrainian lawmakers accept released information on their Bitcoin holdings, which are quite substantial. The legislators, Dmitry Golubov, Alexander Urbansky, as well as Dmitry Belotserkovets, are all members of the grouping “Petro Poroshenko Block.”
According to Russian intelligence service
RIA Novosti, Golubov has the largest Bitcoin belongings amid alongside 8,752 Bitcoins. At electrical flow prices, this amounts to close $36 mln. Urbansky as well as Belotserkovets accept 2,494 as well as 398 Bitcoins, respectively.
Conflicted governmentThese disclosures come upward equally the Ukrainian authorities considers measures to regulate digital currencies. The country’s fundamental depository fiscal establishment of late revealed that the legal as well as regulatory condition of virtual currencies volition live on a major topic of word at the side past times side coming together of the Financial Stability Board inwards belatedly August.
At the same time, the Ukrainian fundamental depository fiscal establishment is considering regulating digital currencies, as well as several authorities agencies accept launched programs to integrate Blockchain applied scientific discipline into their operations. One of these agencies is the Ministry of Agricultural Policy as well as Food, which inwards Oct volition commence the airplane pilot run of a novel terra firma registry powered past times Blockchain.
According to First Deputy Minister of Agricultural Policy as well as Food, Maksym Martyniuk, the case volition live on conducted at the country’s State Land Cadastre. The applied scientific discipline volition live on used to digitize auctions for leases of province land.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian constabulary dice along their crusade against the piece of occupation of cryptocurrencies inwards the country. Local sources study that authorities accept raided a state-owned facility where they discovered as well as confiscated a large cache of Bitcoin mining machines.
These developments exhibit that the Ukrainian authorities is deeply conflicted as well as has no concrete excogitation nevertheless on how to bargain alongside the digital currencies. It volition live on interesting to regard which faction wins as well as to guess its touching on on the market.
