Russian journalist, Alena Suharevskaia, recently discovered and published secret offline crypto exchanges in the country’s capital.
Alena Suharevskaia also shared a small publication after describing the secret offline cryptocurrency offices in the capital.. In the business center of Moscow, Suharevskaia has found several cryptocurrency offices, one of them, Berkut or “Golden Eagle of Partnership”, has an average daily trading volume of 100BTC($650,000).
Transactions are done here under pseudonyms, customers they come to the office with cash and documents proving their legality. After the coins are counted, they wait another 30 minutes for the transfer to complete on the blockchain.
Customers enjoy the office luxury lounge with big-screen TV and game consoles, while employees often do a brief survey of the customer’s history.
Berkut’s CEO, Denis Polokhin, ensures security and reliability by not hiding customers’ information in his office and closing the transfer only after both parties confirm the amount in their wallets.. He claimed that in his best days, his daily transaction volume reached up to $2 million.
Another cryptocurrency office in Moscow’s business center is the International Crypto Center, located on the ground floor of the building.. According to the subsidiary arm of an Estonian company, Aridika Asset Management, also CEO Roman Krayniak, the operation is perfectly legal.
Krayniak said that there are a few groups of buyers, the vast majority of whom are buyers to fund their own ICO projects.. The next majority are Chinese, who own clothing stores in Moscow, and the rest are internet traders and dubious traders. stated in his report. These traders feed trade centers in locations as diverse as Moscow City, Gardener, and South Gates.
The cryptocurrency bureau in Gardener says it has a daily trading volume of $10M, as much as the entire legal total in Moscow.. Still, Yurii Polupanov, head of the financial supervision department of the Bank of Russia, the amount is slightly less, around $8.6M, telling Bitsonline.
According to a report by Chepicap, the government’s thinking is that the country is not ready for cryptocurrency yet. Despite this, the use of crypto continues to bloom in the country.
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