That's not for me to answer  .
 
The way I see Anton's proposal, it's just as if every nation-state is trying to jump into the party and have a slice of the Bitcoin cake and this is fueled by how much Bitcoin has progressed and for countries to see potential in creating reserves for Bitcoin, I feel it won't be long before there'd be a struggle for who owns the biggest Bitcoin reserve and it could lead to a certain desire for monopoly?
 Anton is just aligning his proposal with the Central Bank of Russia's desire to integrate digital assets into international payment systems so it's a question of if his proposal would be looked into or if it would just be yet another individual to bring up the idea of their country having a Bitcoin reserve like we've been hearing of late.


Here's a link to what you're saying since the one you provided is in Russian : https://cryptoslate.com/russian-lawmaker-proposes-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-to-counter-geopolitical-challenges/

Yes, this could be the next big move for Bitcoin, or at least this could be the reasons why we will see this bull run to be around $150k-$180k this 2025. As not just whales and institutions who are going to buy large amount, but the government itself.


This has been the argument since the beginning, and yet no one can proved that it has been taken advantage of criminals. On the other hand, fiat is still the king for them and so I do not think that they will used Bitcoin for their "criminal" activity.

As it was said - all try to grab their share due to the US doing and thinking about it too.
And Russia is inclined even more to do so - after all, they need some leverage to be able to maneuver more during these times.

Totally.
For now - BTC is seen mostly in that regard for the people.
Because there are no advantages to doing otherwise on a bigger scale - and maybe it's good for now, only the future will show us what will be done with BTC by people when it is adopted more.

Sounds pretty logical, yet, when govs were logical with crypto?
We need to wait things out, as such drafts are sometimes dragged across years to be even looked at.

It's either beneficial to the government or it's packed up in such a way that it isn't seen at first glance.
But it totally is. Almost all the time.
Times never change.

Before Putin and Russia can take their leading roles to succeed in de-dollarization with a currency for BRICS, he will attempt to use what is available now. It's Bitcoin and cryptocurrency blockchains, they can simply make these things legal in their countries and move on with deployments and attachments these things to their central and commercial banks.

It saves their times, it helps them to avoid risk of failure because their new currency for BRICS or any CBDC can be failed, but Bitcoin and big altcoin blockchains are here to serve them, free of development costs.

Putin can be stupid and obssesed with power, with The Great Russia dream, and stucks with wars, but he is smart to know he can abuse available blockchains for avoiding sanctions.

It's the USA's fault that Russia is trying to de-dollarize (didn't know if this word needed hyphen in between). The USA flexes it's power and influence too much and this only motivates others to get free from the USA as soon as possible.

If Russia really creates a strategy Bitcoin reserves, then this means that the party is on, we should expect serious adoption and regulations. Trump wants to mine the rest of the Bitcoins in the USA, he will try to attract miners and then have control over them, i.e. set the censorship on Bitcoin transactions but Russia will also try to attract miners and share a significant portion of hashpower to get rid of the USA's influence over transactions. But I don't understand this, Bitcoin is not anonymous and the USA can track and leak Russia's addresses. The USA can force its partners to not accept transactions from Russian Bitcoin addresses. I think that Monero is the only real solution for Russia but it's so anonymous that it's unacceptable too.

Could Satoshi imagine that we would go this far?

When everybody imposes sanctions on you and you have very limited ways to move Fiat around, Bitcoin is like a miracle.  These sanctions rendered the usage of Fiat useless for Russia and this is their only escape for now.  Like they said, nobody can stop Bitcoin.  This is why they like it.

I doubt the idea for a strategic Bitcoin Reserve came up because they love how Decentralized it is and how much Freedom it brings.  I mean.  They do love it, as long as they are the only beneficiary of its advantages.  I suspect they are thinking about creating such a Reserve particularly to avoid sanctions when ever necessary.

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Possibly.  I am thinking of it as a possibility too.

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Why are you turning this political and why do you put words into my mouth?  I never said Putin is a GREAT leader.  I said it comes from a BIG leader like Putin.

Even if I did say Putin was a great leader, I am a believer in REAL Freedom of Speech and I would not see a problem with it.  Real Freedom of Speech does not have limits.  Limited Freedom of Speech makes it not Free.  To me, it is completely incomprehensible to see so many people think somebody has a right to their opinion UNTIL something they do not like is being said.

Before you further comment, I will paste a quote or two from long ago when I underlined my neutrality for not only the Russia versus Ukraine war but also in other subjects of discussion too.