{"id":40490,"date":"2021-04-09T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40490"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:19:31","slug":"survey-finds-half-of-russians-prepared-to-use-the-digital-ruble-22-firmly-opposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-finds-half-of-russians-prepared-to-use-the-digital-ruble-22-firmly-opposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey finds half of Russians prepared to use the digital ruble, 22% firmly opposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of Russia&#8217;s residents are prepared to use the central bank&#8217;s digital ruble, while 22% are firmly opposed. The findings come from a survey by the Centre for Research on Financial Technologies and the Digital Economy at SKOLKOVO-RESH, reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/11103517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Precisely 14% say they intend to use the digital ruble, with a further 36% saying they would probably want to.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight percent are negative towards it, of whom 22% said they would definitely not use the digital ruble.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted among 1,600 people in 140 localities across 70 regions of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Russia noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bank-of-russia-to-make-transfers-of-digital-rubles-between-individuals-free\">transfers of digital rubles between individuals in Russia are planned to be free<\/a>, while a fee may be charged for payments for goods, analogous to the charges currently in the Faster Payments System.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of Russia&#8217;s residents are prepared to use the central bank&#8217;s digital ruble, with 22% firmly opposed. The data come from a survey by the Centre for Research on Financial Technologies and the Digital Economy at SKOLKOVO-RESH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1165,167],"class_list":["post-40490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-digital-ruble","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40492,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40490\/revisions\/40492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}