He is lying. It is easy for a dictatorship to destroy cryptocurrencies. Most people know that the Chinese Communist Party has GFW, but few people know that they have stronger means than GFW, the whitelist mode.

We didn't really need some politician to tell us nobody can stop/ban bitcoin, we already knew that. Putin's random statements about bitcoin is just as insignificant as Trump's.

The only thing that matters is their actions. If this leads to governments competing on accumulating bitcoin, then that is what we should discuss. I personally consider it a net negative thing even though it may have some positive sides like price rise and adoption rise. Because this gives these centralized authorities the power to significantly influence the price. They could end up manipulating the price to make profit, we already know US government has the biggest debt and Russian economy is also facing a lot of issues. If they start trying to make profit from bitcoin price manipulation, it is terrible for bitcoin.

Any government with a "brain" has been accumulating gold for a couple of years now. I picked up the first signs back in 2022:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5418480.0
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5432581.0
#WordWar5

Now let's count how many times he in particular had banned Bitcoin and then in-banned it, the banned again and unbanned again.

Putin knows he's powerless against Bitcoin. Everyone is. No one person can gain privileged access into the system.

Yeah, it's a cycle of a gov that doesn't know what to do with something they can't control.
The only question is when would they stop to see the potential for BTC.
 

It's easy for them to say - I ban X (crypto, a coin on the market, etc.) - but they can't destroy it.
 

All of that is just Senator Lummis' call to Congress, the proposal to sell gold or use bitcoin as a national reserve has not yet become an official proposal for consideration.

Also, the US accumulating and turning bitcoin into a national reserve has nothing to do with the USD and will not make the USD stronger, it is just a strategy to diversify national reserves. They will focus on protecting USD dominance because USD strength is their strength. I don't think they will abandon USD and choose bitcoin as an alternative, that will never happen.

Seeing his words saying that no one can prevent the development of Bitcoin, I agree with what he said, because if we look back at how many governments have banned Bitcoin and how many officials or rich people have spread FUD to Bitcoin and said that it is just a ponzi scheme, but it continues to grow, and just now it printed a new ATH at $100k USD. That alone proves how powerful Bitcoin is - and it continues to grow and even if many people don't like it much, it will continue to spread globally and its adoption will increase.

Putin is another politician making some statement about what almost everyone knows in this forum. It is quite unfortunate that we now celebrate what politicians and big firms say about Bitcoin because of the influence in price and adoption. We should also be prepared to endure or face the consequences when the same people begin to talk down on Bitcoin and eventually abandon it (which is highly unlikely).

Politicians cannot be trusted because what they give priority today might be abandoned tomorrow. The same politician who is calling Bitcoin gold today can call it a thrash later, and we all know what will happen to the price when such happens. With or without politicians, Bitcoin will be what it is destined to be.     

Most of the exchanges have delisted Monero, so it's an ongoing fight for the Monero community to establish new P2P markets, centralized and decentralized.

There is currently Haveno-reto (RetoSwap), and that's about it for now. As well as a handful of exchanges who still have Monero listed, and Bisq.

Of course no government will help them in this regard.