The irony of the 21st century looks something like this.
Authoritarian Belarus, where the state controls almost every economic process, claims the possibility for the self-employed to officially receive payment in cryptocurrency.
A country that calls itself digital and progressive continues to treat Bitcoin and other crypto as if it were a temporary internet mistake.
If the decree really works as described by the officials of the National Bank of Belarus, it means one simple thing: even strictly centralized economies have begun to perceive cryptocurrencies not as a threat, but as a tool for exporting services.
Because the logic here is very pragmatic.
Self-employed specialist:
receives payments from abroad without banking barriers;
is not dependent on the sanctions infrastructure;
brings currency into the economy.
The state receives taxes.
The economy is liquidity.
People are a working tool.
Without ideology. Just mathematics.
And now the most unpleasant question.
Why do even countries with less economic freedom try to integrate crypto, while in our 'freest country in the world' according to the messages from the green telethon, regulatory rhetoric often sounds like an attempt to complicate it as much as possible?
It seems the problem is not in the risks of cryptocurrencies.
The problem is in losing control over financial flows.
Crypto fits poorly into the old model that is stubbornly imposed on us by 'Hetmancev & Co':
banks — as a single point of entry;
full financial monitoring;
slow international payments.
She makes the economy faster.
And speed is always less control.
And the paradox is that global competition is now not between Web2 and Web3.
It goes between jurisdictions.
Whoever first allows people to earn globally will take the new economy.
And while some countries think about how to legalize the future, others risk being left to regulate the past.
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