Russia Burger King Franchise Plans to Accept Bitcoin Payments This Summer

The owners of the fast food chain Burger King announced that during the summer of 2017, they will start taking Bitcoins as payment for food and drinks. "Burger King" has already begun to look for a software developer. We need to write a few programs that will allow you to link the cashier's of restaurants with android- and iOS-applications and allow visitors to pay with crypto currency.

In June 27 in Moscow, one of the restaurants, whose name is not reported, received from the visitor the payment of his bill for dinner from his crypto-currency account. This is the first official message about payment by bitcoins of a product or service in Russia. At the same time, the turnover of bitcoin in Russia is not regulated by the state in Russia. In 2014, the Ministry of Finance declared the Crypto-currency "out of the law" and proposed imposing large monetary penalties for its use.

The Ministry of Economic Development spoke out sharply against this ban, but during the next year and a half the draft laws consistently introduced into the State Duma, which provided for the use of bitcoins for punishment of varying degrees of severity - from a fine of 20,000 rubles to 4 years in prison. The editorial office of uznayvse.ru informs that none of these bills was adopted. In the summer of 2017, the head of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said that the crypto-currencies will soon be legalized in Russia, at least, work on this has already begun.

One should note however, many western banks report that they are ready to work with Bitcoins and consider them a full currency; And in Canadian Vancouver a while ago was installed the first machine, in which bitcoins can be cashed.