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Russia says it will halt foreign currency purchases and launch a digital ruble to keep the currency from spiraling further (finance.yahoo.com)

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[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

A digital Ruble means that they don't even need to physically print more bills to further devalue their currency. Now they can just either add to a database column or stick a few more blocks on a block chain. Free money!

[-] whats_a_refoogee@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Most money is already digital. There isn't a paper bill backing every dollar, far from it. No doubt it was the same in Russia.

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