Russia just paid its Finance Ministry staff in digital rubles ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ

CBDC adoption moving from pilot to actual payroll one month after nationwide rollout

This is how governments normalize digital currency infrastructure - start with your own employees, normalize the rails, then push it wider

Whether you're bullish or bearish on CBDCs, this is a real-world stress test of state-controlled programmable money at scale