Russia Launches $100 Million Bitcoin Mining Operation (Bloomberg)
Source : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-08/russia-launches-100-million-bitcoin-mining-operation
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/putin-s-aide-seeks-100-million-to-rival-china-in-bitcoin-mining
Bloomberg is reporting that a company headed by a Putin aid is launching and ICO and seeking to raise $100 Million to mine bitcoin. This move is in an attempt to counter the Bitcoin mining efforts in China.
Russian Miner Coin (RMC) has ambitions to reach up to 30% of all Global Mining.
This is seen as a watershed moment for Bitcoin and adds to the current Ethereum Projects that Russia has underway.
Going mainstream. Precious metals are up too today
It looks more and more that way....but you have to follow all the little steps. And the move by precious metals was a nice little surprise too :-)