News Snapshot:
- Russia will accept bitcoin as payment for its oil and natural gas from friendly countries, its energy minister said Thursday. - Western countries still importing energy from Russia will have to pay rubles or gold, he said. - Pavel Zavalny said the national fiat currency of friendly buyer countries — like the yuan or lira — can also be used for trade. Russia's energy minister has said the country is willing to accept bitcoin in exchange for oil and gas exports from countries like China and Turkey, as sweeping sanctions over its war in Ukraine hit trade. In a...
