One of the organizers of the Blockchain Life forum Sergei Khitrov at the Eastern Economic Forum (VEF) said that at least 19 million cryptocurrency holders could be included in Russia, excluding participants in the Hamster Combat telegram process.

If you analyze the data of large funds and analytical portals, you can find out that by the beginning of the year the number of owners of digital assets in the world was 610 million, the businessman said. In Russia, taking into account the information of foreign agencies, up to 14% of the population disposes of cryptocurrency.

“Is it a lot or little? Let’s take out the calculator and calculate: we multiply 14% by 142 million – this is about 19 million cryptans. That is, these are 19 million people who, in one way or another, had accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges or their cryptocurrency wallet. And this is still without taking into account all those who tap the hamster, ”Khitrov explained.

The businessman said that the information of Russian analysts indicates 400,000 people engaged in cryptocurrency mining and 300,000 farms for digital assets:

“Simple mathematics: we divide 19 million into this amount, we get 2%. Question: Who are the rest? ”

When studying Russian cryptocurrencies, many diverse services functioning around it are not taken into account, cunning assured. It is worth stretching the crypto industry from the shadows to receive taxes from it, summarized the entrepreneur.

Earlier, deputies of the State Duma of Russia from the New People faction Anton Tkachev, Yaroslav Samylin and George Arapov sent a letter to the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina with a proposal to create a mechanism for state licensing of crypto exchangers.