Deutsche Welle is the German press.
Russia's ‘shadow fleet’: how it was created and why it is still invulnerable
https://www.dw.com/ru/tenevoj-flot-rf-kak-on-byl-sozdan-i-pocemu-poka-neuazvim/a-71108648

This article is in Russian, but you can find primary sources in English and see how sanctions work in practice.
No one will be cold, there is no need to confuse war and trade, wars start and end, but trade is eternal.

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In Russia, cryptocurrencies are very often used in business, although this is prohibited by law. At the largest wholesale bases in Russia, cryptocurrencies are much more popular than cash.
Who believes that sanctions work, let him come to Moscow. He will see there the latest models of expensive cars, the latest medical equipment in private clinics and everything else. Everything has become more expensive, but rich people don't care.

This is a very good new for bitcoin community and this is a practical example for people to see when we talk about the freedom bitcoin gives. This is a situation whereby people can have a good understanding of bitcoin and the good quality it has over fiat. Russia accepting bitcoin foreign trade is a good awareness for the adoption of bitcoin and because of this people will show interest to know bitcoin more.

My previous statement and this, your edited statement, are both true but the difference is that The United States Of America is an empire in present time.

By the way, Imperialism is very expensive, that's why the USA is in so much debt. They have NATO, fund many projects and politicians in many countries all over the world and so on. I believe that the USA made a mistake when they prioritized Hollywood and influence over masses instead of science and engineering. China prioritized science and they are developing rapidly. In the world, people don't want to study like before because if you study hard, get PhD and so on, a retard Youtuber or TikToker will earn more than you while they'll have all the fun and attention, while you'll have to work depressed.
I believe that there is still time to fix this.

You are telling a story that Putler and his like-minded people have been telling for years - and yet no one in the EU has frozen or died of hunger because there is no trade with Russia. Besides, what is the inflation rate in the EU compared to Russia - and what are the interest rates?

It is true that people are fleeing from your beloved Russia because the annual inflation rate is around 10% and interest rates are around 30%, and people are being sent to the front to be cannon fodder. People in the EU live quite well, if it weren't so, millions of people wouldn't want to come and live here.

For your information, I am much richer than I was 5 years ago and I lack nothing.

Speaking of Russian foreign trades and energy, Trump recently threatened Europeans that if they don't buy the super expensive US oil and gas he'll tariff the hell out of them. That reminded me of the famous saying that "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

Europe now has two choices, either continue buying super expensive energy and continue deindustrializing or refuse making a stupid move and face tariffs and continue deindustrializing in another way (as they lose markets).
Looks like their third option is either to buy Russian energy (using Ruble by the way not bitcoin) or hope that their terrorist proxies in West Asia can provide them with ultra cheap energy (like 10 bucks a barrel for Syrian oil). Neither of which are working yet... Oh and Qatar just threatened to cut their gas off too...

LOL, I want to do a similar graphic that depicts Bitcoiners caring about absolutely nothing else on the planet except... Bitcoin going up in price.

As I implied in another thread, the Bitcoin universe could be made to do absolutely anything as long as the price went up. If Trump announced tomorrow that the US was going to seize the bitcoin code base and the miners and basically own the bitcoin network for now on, the only thing people would care about is if it made the price BTC go up, which it would, so all of the supposed libertarians would have sold out everything the pretended to believe in for a 20% price bump in their holdings.

Putin's Russia is a brutal, murderous regime that has slaughtered countless innocents for absolutely no reason but plunder. Putin himself came to power by murdering women and children of his own country. He clearly has designs on subjugating the rest of Europe under the totalitarian rule he enjoys in his own country--a totalitarian state where things like Bitcoin are laughable.

But you guys don't care about any of this because Putin might make the price of Bitcoin go up a little.

So basically you are willing to trade all of your political freedoms and the lives of millions for... Bitcoin going up in price a little bit.

Y'all are cheap dates.

Source?

That's not a source and don't try to deflect like a weasel.

Give me a source that backs up your outrageous claims.

I think since Donald Trump won the US election, the price of Bitcoin has increased significantly and the acceptance of Bitcoin is also increasing day by day. Currently Russia is also preparing to use Bitcoin. Today, Hong Kong is preparing to include Bitcoin in their national reserve. 2024 is a very positive year. This year, the price of Bitcoin touched $100,000, and the Bitcoin halving also took place.


https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1873769131016855598?t=yIw28WmDWyKmMu5txfpdAQ&s=19

That's all what they can do for now when the US' sanctions are too tough and pressing their economy badly. But I think there's a point in the past that they don't even believe about Bitcoin and even banned it.

I think with the new administration of US coming, these sanctions will be minimized if not removed at all. Trump and Putin are known to each other so as Xi, so this will change the game later on.

But for the meantime, there's still less than a month until Trump assumes office so, I hope that Russia will continue to stand with their use of Bitcoin since there are also a lot of forum members from there.