Russia’s draft law on digital financial assets has been edited again in a rather unexpected way just before a second hearing scheduled for the autumn session of the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s Parliament. The lawmakers have decided to remove the definition of crypto mining from the text containing proposals for regulating crypto assets in the country.

Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the Duma committee on financial markets, explained the reasons behind this decision in an interview for Interfax, telling the Russian news agency on the sidelines of the Finopolis 2018 conference:

“Earlier, we had been considering the matter of Bitcoins and their possible integration into our economic system. But since we came to the conclusion that we don’t need these incompreh…

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