The Western powers that be are leaning on Putin indirectly. The US now have plans to send warheads to Ukraine or even launch some to Russia and the UK are sending war choppers into Ukraine for reinforcements. And they are promising much more war supplies.

I do not know what your opinion is based on that Western states are indirectly relying on Putin, and also that the United States can supply warheads to Russia. The countries of Europe and the United States today are practically unanimous in the opinion that Russia should not win this war and that they will provide any assistance to Ukraine for this as long as it is necessary for its victory.

The world has seen that Russia is now striving to destroy the Ukrainians as a nation, what atrocities the Russians are committing in the occupied territories of Ukraine against its civilians and do not want this to happen again in other countries, where Russia will definitely invade if it is not stopped in Ukraine. The civilized world is now completely on the side of Ukraine.

Bitcoin could crash 40% in 2023, predicts Mark Mobius.
Bitcoin could crash to $10,000, a more than 40%  plunge from current prices veteran investor Mark Mobius told CNBC

Now the price of Bitcoin again fell a little to $ 16,845, on Coinmarketcap almost all cryptocurrency is again in red. Cryptowinter continues until we see real changes in the direction of improving the situation. However, I do not think that a bear cycle will last for years. Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market as a whole can change the fall and stagnation to growth at any time. Now there are both negative and positive forecasts for the further price movement of this market. While there is nothing unusual in the cryptocurrency market, a large price volatility is always inherent in this market.

After the announcement of mobilization in Russia at the end of September, Russian support for the war that Putin unleashed in Ukraine fell sharply at first, but has now risen again. According to the last poll conducted in early December, such support was 65-68 percent. Well, the Russians don't learn from their mistakes, and so this time they will have to suffer economically for generations to come. They are accustomed to consider themselves invincible nations, attack other states, kill, rob, rape civilians and enjoy their impunity. The current war in Ukraine has far surpassed in its senseless cruelty on the part of the Russians even the Nazis, who behaved during the occupation of Ukraine much worthy.

In the case of Ukraine, this time it will not work. The international community will force the Russians to compensate Ukraine for the material damage caused, which has already exceeded a trillion dollars, and the Russians will become beggars in complete international isolation. It probably takes a few generations and their imperial ambitions to disappear before they can be allowed into civilization.

Therefore, restrictions on Russians on crypto exchanges are still flowers.

Interesting. Sberbank is one of the 2-3 Russian internationally accredited bullion banks.
Bullion banks are the major actors within the international physical gold market.

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The main Russian commercial bank players sourcing gold mine supply for the Russian central bank include VTB, Sberbank, Otkritie, and Gazprom Bank. For example, in 2017, Russia’s largest gold mining company Polyus, sold 90% of its gold output to just three banks, VTB, Otkritie and Sberbank, and another few percent of output to Gazprom Bank. These banks are mostly government owned or controlled and are granted licenses by the Russian government to allow them to trade gold with the central bank.

Some of these banks are also active on the international gold markets. For example, VTB, Sberbank, and Otkrikie are all members of the international board of China’s Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE). VTB and Sberbank are also full members of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), while Otkritie is an LBMA associate.

Sberbank’s international gold trading activities are conducted through its investment banking subsidiary Sberbank CIB (which was formerly Troika Dialog). As well as purchasing gold from Russian gold miners which mostly goes to the central bank, Sberbank CIB sells refined gold bars to the physical gold powerhouses of China and India.

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/russian-central-bank-buying-gold-on-the-international-market/

Given that, I think that if Sberbank are planning their own stablecoin, it will be a gold-linked one.

It may well be. But as a result of an ill-conceived military attack on Ukraine, Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves are declining uncontrollably. In addition, a significant portion of such stocks, worth more than $300 billion, which Russia kept in foreign banks, is now frozen and it is likely that they can be transferred to Ukraine in exchange for the enormous damage that Russia caused the war in Ukraine. In addition, it is still unknown whether Russia will remain within its current territories after this war, which, most likely, will be losing for it. And without the oil and gas of Siberia, Russia will mean practically nothing in the international arena.

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Quote from: Alcor on October 15, 2022, 05:57:59 PM

According to a recent poll, 78 percent of Russians supported the formal accession to the Russian Federation of four regions of Ukraine, on whose territory hostilities with Russian occupiers continue. So don't say that Russian citizens are innocent of killing Ukrainians.

Russians also "agree" as with the presidential election. In Russia, no one has been considering the opinion of Russians for a long time, all these percentages are drawn without their participation, while the overwhelming majority are against fighting!

However, on the territory of Russia, we do not see mass protests against the war and the policy of military aggression chosen by Putin's entourage against neighboring states, including against Ukraine, with which many Russians have family ties. The fact that in Russia the people do not control the government they have elected is the fault of all the people of this country. Other countries cannot interfere in the internal affairs of Russia and give them instructions on how to act correctly in order for their government to act within the framework of the Constitution and in the interests of the people. On the other hand, it is not Putin who is now killing civilians in Ukraine. This is done by hundreds of thousands of ordinary Russian citizens to the enthusiastic exclamations of their wives, parents and children. The inhabitants of Ukraine, who are dying every day under the shelling of Russian shells and rockets in their own homes, are not helped in any way by the fact that individual Russians in the kitchen are whispering so that no one will hear them that they are against the war. If they cannot openly express their opinion and slavishly obey their criminal regime, then this is their problem, and in this case they will all have to share the responsibility for military aggression against neighboring states. After all, reparations will have to be paid for many more generations of Russians.

Usually, by the end of the year, the situation in the cryptocurrency market looks more optimistic. Very often during this period, the cryptocurrency market shows a good price increase. Recently, there have been predictions about a possible increase in the price of bitcoin in the near future. This will give a good impetus to the further growth of all cryptocurrencies, including ethereum. Let's hope that this happens. I think that the crypto-winter is already quite tired of everyone.

Quote from: Bobcrypto on February 09, 2022, 09:23:34 PM

I has observed that since the market pick up from the downtrend, now for about two weeks, Bitcoin has proven to be the controller of the crypto price movement, unfortunately  there Ether and entire altcoins may not break out of this dominance as long as crypto exist. What are thoughts?

As many people said, I think bitcoin is strongest than other. I believe bitcoin will exist for the next several years again.
maybe more five or seven years bitcoins still the King of crypto currency.

From the point of view of the market, five to seven years is a very short period of time. And then what can happen in the market in terms of price dominance? Of course, the dominance of bitcoin in this market is not eternal. Everything is changing and so is cryptocurrency. In any market, the strongest survive. Considering that we see a significant development of altcoins against the background of the fact that Bitcoin is practically standing still, it would be logical to assume that after some time Bitcoin will be moved from its position as a cryptocurrency leader and price dominance in the market.