A Russian member of parliament who sits on the Central Bank’s National Banking Council gave the country’s blockchain aficionados some love on Wednesday, and even went so far as to say a digital ruble was coming. “I always believed that a digital ruble is the future of all our money circulation,” says Anatoly Aksakov during the Blockchain Life conference held in Moscow yesterday. “Already we have begun consultations (on a digital ruble) and I think a digital ruble will start being tested, possibly even in the next year.” Russian news media reports posit that a digital ruble is likely in late 2021. The currency would ... (full story)