Well, well, well :) I remember when I was a youngish child hearing my significant elders using the phrase "how about those clever Japanese!" in relation to some new SONY Walkman or whatnot. Perhaps the phrase for for our 3rd millennium shall be "how about those rational Russians!" (BTW, since it's a thousand years, not a million years, surely it should be called a thillenium, not a millenium?) ** Russia Turns to Cryptocurrencies to Counter US Sanctions http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413cb3652f&id=bd3d211491&e=5110f4b440 https://tomluongo.me/2017/08/13/russia-embrace-blockchain-counter-sanctions/ ------------------------------------------------------------ by Tom Luongo on Wed, Aug 16, 2017 The central depository for the Moscow Exchange, National Settlement Depository (NSD), announced that it is developing a platform to provide accounting services for digital assets like cryptocurrencies. The platform looks to be build a unit of account, very important in the volatile crypto-space, for people to value their assets in and have access to through a wallet platform. In short, the Moscow Exchange is taking a page out of Dan Larimer’s BitShares and its OpenLedger exchange to provide trading and accounting and banking services all validated and accessible through the blockchain.