Moscow Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Trading, Testing Underway

Russia in recent months has paved the way to allow its citizens to trade bitcoin. The Moscow Exchange plans to let clients trade cryptocurrencies starting in December and has begun testing operations with professional market participants, a senior executive said last week. “We are actively testing. We started a week ago,” Boris Blokhin, the exchange’s senior managing director for sales and business development, told journalists on the sidelines of the Sber Investments forum, according to a Thursday Interfax report.