Don't drift off into the past or run away into the future. Stay here, in the present. Because that's the only way your mind becomes free. Inner energy is released, and you can fully immerse yourself in what you're doing. And that's when you're truly here. Here and now.
Since the mass launch of the digital ruble, around 100,000 accounts have been opened and over 50k transactions have been processed. Judging by the dynamics, Russians aren't exactly rushing to swap cash and foreign currency for "something."
It's no surprise that people pick anonymous crypto cards and digital neo-banks over solutions from authoritarian states or corporations that shamelessly cooperate with the likes of Palantir. And as an ethnic German, watching the right-wing AfD party win in Germany, I've been convinced of this once again.