Crypto Emergency

Federal Law No. 1194918-8 (Article 1, parts 9–10) directly bans crypto advertising, exchange platforms, wallets, exchanges, and any crypto projects in Russia.
Official goal: “to protect people from scammers.”
Sounds noble. But let’s face the truth.
Scammers who lure people into crypto don’t live in Russia.

Author: Yan Krivonosov
Date: July 16, 2026
We waited. The second reading of Bill No. 1194918-8 “On digital currencies and digital rights” has taken place. The document presented as “regulation” turned out, in fact, to be an act of total prohibition disguised as care for citizens.

Author: Yan Krivonosov
Friends, it seems we’re on the verge of a new era in medicine. This week, an authoritative publication in the journal Nature released a study that could completely reshape our understanding of surgery.
For the first time in history, a team of engineers and doctors from the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) used humanoid robots to perform real laparoscopic surgeries on living organisms.

Author: Yani Krivonosov
The IRGC launched missile strikes on two supertankers of the UAE—Al Bahyah and MOMBASA B—in the Strait of Hormuz. According to my sources, one of the tankers nevertheless sank. This information has not yet been confirmed in official channels—there they only say of serious damage and evacuation of the crews. But given the nature of the hits and the fact that the ships received direct hits, the scenario of flooding is more than likely.

Author: Yan Krivonosov
Friends, here’s a vivid example of what “tightening the screws” and trying to force the crypto market into harsh limits leads to.
In Novorossiysk, an elderly couple handed more than 7 million rubles to courier scammers. Now the police are establishing their identities — height, clothing, tattoos... Will they be found? Unlikely. The courier came, took the money, left — and that was it.

Richard Teng, the head of the exchange, admitted: when Europe tightened the rules, 70% of clients withdrew funds to their personal wallets, and only 30% moved to MiCA-compliant platforms. Regulators wanted to restore order, but got the opposite effect: people massively went into self-custody.

Author Yan Krivonosov
When we talk about mining Bitcoin at $1,300, many people see it as just another clickbait or a marketing trick. But in fact it’s pure math that is working in Iran right now. There, the industrial electricity tariff for miners is about one cent per kilowatt-hour, and with the current Bitcoin price of around $63,000, the cost to mine one coin really does fit into $1,300. This isn’t theory—it’s a working scheme. The catch is that access to it isn’t available to everyone, but only to select structures closely connected to the authorities.

Author: Yan Krivonosov
You know, I’ve been watching the market with great interest over the past couple of weeks. We’re all used to Bitcoin being a kind of fear barometer: if something blows up somewhere, or if politicians start snarling at each other, the price immediately heads down. But now we’re seeing an astonishing picture that breaks these old stereotypes. Take, for example, the story with the Strait of Hormuz. If something like that had happened five or six years ago, we would definitely have seen wild panic and a 20–30% crash in Bitcoin. And now? Bitcoin is calmly holding above $63,000, and Brent crude has jumped to $79. The market seems to be saying, “Hey, we’ve been through this already, and you can’t fool us.”

Moscow police detained three men suspected of street robbery. The incident occurred in "Moscow City". A young man went there to exchange a large sum—1.5 million rubles—for cryptocurrency. The money was given to him by his mother from the sale of a car.
At the exchange office, they refused him, and when he left the building, strangers approached him and his friends. The teenager tried to leave by taxi, but the attackers pulled him out of the car, led him into an underground passage, and took away the bag with cash.

Author: Yan Krivonosov
Russia’s Ministry of Finance has prepared amendments that could send people to prison for up to four years for issuing and exchanging cryptocurrency. And this is no longer just talk—it’s a fairly specific bill that they plan to submit to the State Duma in the coming months.