Russia’s Finance Ministry Says (Again) That The Digital Ruble Will Replace Cash

• Russia’s Finance Ministry Says (Again) That The Digital Ruble Will Replace Cash
  by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  The transition to CBDCs will be completely voluntary, though. You needn’t worry!
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  Alexei Moiseev, Russia’s deputy minister of finance, is the world’s most candid space lizard.
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  When he announced in a September 2021 interview that “the digital ruble is a replacement for the cash ruble”, skeptics and haters spread hurtful rumors that Moiseev’s refreshing and award-winning honesty had been taken out of context. Here’s what Mr. Moiseev told RIA Novosti two years later, on October 30, 2023:
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  Essentially, [the digital ruble] is the real currency of the 22nd or any other century, which at the end of the day must replace cash.
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  He also promised that the digital ruble would be more “convenient” than cash and non-cash transactions. Safety and convenience are the guiding principles of the 21st century, so it’s easy to imagine that the 22nd century will be extremely safe and outrageously convenient.
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  But just to be 100% clear: Elvira Nabiullina and her devoted blog-admirers promise that Russians will never be coerced into using digital rubles.
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  The gradual transition to CBDCs will be an organic process—a naturally occurring result of Extreme Convenience.
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  Russians will never be prevented from using cash in certain situations, even though this is already happening right now, today, in 2023.
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