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The move brings the digital currency into a more practical phase, as its role in routine government payments continues to expand.
10 sources compared: Western Alternative (5), Asian (1), West Asian (1). Russia’s Finance Ministry began paying some employees in digital rubles for the first time on Thursday, October 1, accor...
Russia’s Ministry of Finance said on Friday that some of its employees had received their wages in digital rubles for the first time.Being paid in the central bank’s digital currency is available for citizens of Russia on a voluntary basis, and began on Oct. 1, according to a Ministry of Finance pr…