Rumors about the transfer of state payments to digital rubles are distributed in the Urals – Bits Media

The Department of Information Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region announced the widespread distribution of fakes about the transfer of payments to residents of the region from familiar rubles to digital, aggravated by the forced collection of biometric data.

Panic messages diverged into social networks and messengers. Officials tell, that the residents of the region began to seriously come to the MFC, to give a written refusal to provide biometric data.

Officials hastened to notify citizens, that information in such messages is not true. No procedure for transferring residents to digital rubles, Including for the payment of pensions, social payments and salaries to state employees, Not yet planned. About biometry, respectively, You can also not be thoroughly.

According to the survey, recently organized by the St. Petersburg Exchange and RTS, of 2000 respondents aged 18 to 65 only a quarter announced, that I am ready to keep my savings in digital ruble.

Earlier, the head of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said, that the use of a digital ruble will be “absolutely voluntary” - state cryptocurrency will become only a “additional opportunity for people”.