Elvira Nabiullina: "Cryptocurrencies are the worst way to save money" – Bits Media

According to the head of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina, cryptocurrencies are the worst possible way to store savings, since you can easily lose all the money.

During an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Nabiullina touched questions accumulations. In her opinion, Citizens of Russia need to save funds in that currency, in which these savings will be spent, since if you save in another currency, then you can lose on the difference in courses. Moreover, According to the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, “Losing in the currency market is much easier, how to make money ".

“The most dangerous of all strategies, certainly, speculative crypto acts. The price is very volatile, Losses can be simply colossal. The central bank never gives advice where to invest, But in this particular case - here it is definitely not necessary ", - said Nabiullina.

Nabiullina has repeatedly expressed distrust of cryptocurrencies and called them "money surrogate". She recently talked about that, that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is not going to change its position, and, Despite the adoption of bitcoin as a legal payment fund in Salvador, In Russia, you can not wait for such a step. Previously, Nabiullina also said, that bitcoin cannot be considered currency.