A senior Russian advisor to President Vladimir Putin claimed the United States is conspiring to restructure its ballooning national debt by manipulating cryptocurrency and gold markets. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Anton Kobyakov said Washington is looking to "rewrite the rules" of the cryptocurrency and gold industries as an alternative to the current global currency system to reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar. "The US is now trying to rewrite the rules of the gold and crypto ...