Digital Rubble is a Backward to USSR Economic Model.

As the Russian central bank navigates towards Digital Rubbles, the crypto community seems not to be confident about it. They believed the approach to adopting cryptocurrency will take the nation back to the centralized Soviet Union model. 

The group named Russian cryptocurrency and blockchain association are known as RAKIB, expressed concern through a letter to the Chairwoman, of the Bank of Russia, Chairwoman Elvira Nabiullina, They believed the digital Rubble which will not allow banks to issue and operate digital rubble tokens is not a good move to adopting crypto. 

China’s DCEP is better, they are maintained because it allows individual banks to operate the digital yuan. That allows the government to be only regulators and not also the issuers. Whereas, the Russian government is both the regulator and the issue of the currency. That will make financial services more centralized and as such bring more competition to banks. Digital Rubble is a Backward to USSR Economic Model.

The Chinese government in this regard started the pilot of the novel, Digital Yuan named DCEP in late 2019. The digital yuan is said to be issued through commercial banks and big techs, therefore improving bank settlements and cross border remittances. 

Okereke Chinweokwu

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