The cryptocurrency news on our website usually don’t mention or feature a lot of presidents – but the situation is not the same with Binance’s chief Changpeng Zhao, who took the time to praise the president of Russia and said that Vladimir Putin is the most influential person in the blockchain industry.
The CEO of the major cryptocurrency exchange Binance was featured in an article on RBC News on October 22, where he told reporters that Vladimir Putin is the most influential person in the blockchain space. He further added that the bill on regulating digital money may be adopted in the Russian Federation in the foreseeable future.
Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, also revealed that Binance may in some cases provide user information to Russian financial regulators and warned people involved in crime to stay away from the trading platform.
“As a rule, we do not provide information to any regulator en masse. But in individual cases – yes […] therefore, if you are engaged in crime, you don’t sign up with Binance,” he noted.
Zhao thinks that Putin is the most influential person in the blockchain space. However, besides this opinion, he talked about many other things. One of them was the story of how he sold his house in 2014 to buy Bitcoin (BTC) before a drop from $600 to $200, despite which he HODLed to present day with BTC standing below $8,000 at press time. This story was a way of explaining the belief that CZ has towards the world’s most popular cryptocurrency and its potential growth.
As we previously reported in our latest Binance news, the platform may soon add support for the Russian ruble. By adding the ruble on its platform, Binance will attract a lot of Russian investors interested in buying cryptocurrencies directly using rubles.
This is what CZ explained at the Open Innovations Forum in Moscow, an event led by the government. While Binance never confirmed the addition of a ruble-crypto pair to the news sites, it did not provide details or a full explanation on why the ruble was chosen for the first fiat-crypto trading pair.
Changpeng Zhao is making the news lately with a lot of different statements in the crypto space.
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