Olga Skorobogatova, First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, said that the Bank of Russia did not discuss with them the issue of “coloring” the digital ruble to track transactions, such calculations leave a digital footprint. Wrote agency RIA Novosti.
“We do not yet have and are not discussing that digital rubles should be marked or colored with a really purpose in some way,” he replied in a speech at the State Duma working group meeting.
As the representative of the regulator noted, all non-cash payments have their own traces. “For example, we have a state defense order, we follow it in a certain way: there is a code of such operations, we see it. So there is no difference here: digital ruble or cashless, because it has both a digital footprint there,” he explained.
In the second half of March, analysts of the financial market “Vyberu.ru” sent According to data, more than a third (38%) of Russians do not understand the working principles and the purpose of the new form of national currency, the digital ruble.
This week, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov Confessedthat he wouldn’t mind being charged in digital rubles.
Elvira Nabiullina, Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, in the second half of September said about the regulator’s plans to start testing the digital ruble with real customers from April 1, 2023.
At the end of March, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov declarationthat the introduction of the digital ruble can be completed in 2023 and the authorities are already starting to deal with the issue of transactions on traditional platforms.