One official said that after banning crypto payments in late 2019, Uzbekistan won’t ever reconsider its decision.
The Republic of Uzbekistan will never adopt cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) as a payment method, according to a central bank official.Behzod Khamraev, deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU), predicted that local authorities will never allow residents to use Bitcoin as payment, alleging that BTC is backed by nothing.In an interview with local business publication Spot.uz, Khamraev argued that Bitcoin is widely considered “speculative” and will never become equal to fiat currencies like the United States dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen or the Russian ruble.The official pointed out that there are about 28 trillion Uzbekistani soms in circulation, and all of those are backed by the central bank’s assets.“One can even see an inscription about the regulator’s obligations on the bankn
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