“This is a promising direction, because a number of countries are working on digital units of account,” TASS quoted him as saying in the Easy Money podcast on Channel One.
Siluanov stressed that the purchase of a digital ruble is absolutely reliable, because the issuer is the Central Bank.
Earlier, entrepreneur Andrey Mikhailishin, co-founder of Joys Digital blockchain projects and CEO of Dynekt Eurasia JSC, spoke in an interview with FAN about the prospects for the digital ruble.