I don't think they are banned I heard they are just regulated in China and Russia

No, its not fake news. China did banned the use of crypto, but it doesn't mean people can be stopped accessing their coins. Actually what China did was to banned all the miners and exchanges in their country.

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These ICO's are from China, come to think of it. China is banning those currency that doesn't originate from them. Thus, only allowing ICO's that was made by their people.

Actually some countries have find ways how to tax the cryptocurrency user. I believe the US and UK are one of them. BTW, even a country can impose a ban, it doesn't necessarily mean that the people will follow.

I don't think so. The bitcoin was not banned, but it has just handled by two big governments (China and Russia) that is firstly investors of bitcoin. Actually, they have banned the bitcoin because there are many hackers that want to come in bitcoin system. So, the governments handled it until the troublers who made bitcoin risk calms down and turn back to the normal regulation.

A lot of Chinese Bitcoiners will move from their country after all of that. This is the only right way. Same with russians.

this issue last year 2017 banned the cryptocurrency exchange and i heard this early january 2018 china government want to banned also the mining if i'm not wrong, i we should know cryptocurrency or bitcoin are decentralized currency using the internet connection so i think even the government want to banned bitcoin in their country people continue to work in bitcoin the reason is because have many country can use bitcoin to buy anything in online market then accept bitcoin as payment.

Hi,

In fact, neither China, nor Russia have banned bitcoin. There are regularly press release, stating that such countries are going to design a new legislation in order to ban cryptos..

BUT since then, it has never been adopted. Maybe because some members of these governments are involved in cryptos and they don't want to lose their assets, maybe because crypto is not such a priority, maybe because such governments are rather betting on annoucement effect than real implementation...

There are many explanations possible here.

What I know is that for the moment, there is no active ban and I would even say no upcoming ban to fear!

Not only China and Russia, but my country Indonesia also banned bitcoin. But I explained that the ban is only directed to the use of a medium of exchange only, if for ordinary trading may still be allowed, so naturally when in China there are still people who use bitcoin.