In the RF for six months of 2018, the number of companies engaged in mining has grown to 75,000, which is 15% more than last year. This is what Prime writes about this.

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According to the report, as of July 2018, the share of Russian miners in the world market was about 6%. This is 1% more than a year earlier. At the moment, 350,000 Russians are involved in the mining industry.

As the newspaper writes, in 2018 the number of owners of crypto-currencies among the Russian population grew by 500 thousand compared to the data of 2017. Now the number of cryptoinvesters is about 3 million.

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In the second quarter of 2018, the demand for equipment for mining bitcoin and other crypto-currencies among Russians significantly decreased compared to the previous period.

By the most liberal way, Belarus recently went, in which all the crypto-currencies were legalized. The decree does not imply any restrictions on operations for the creation, placement, storage, alienation, exchange of tokens, as well as the activities of crypto-exchanges and crypto platforms. All actions with crypto-currencies and tokens will not be taxed until 2023.