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The Central Bank of Russia will begin a trial of a digital ruble starting in April. The project will be launched for direct transactions between individuals and for retail purchases. Moscow is also starting the rollout of a digital ID. The news about the CBDC pilot was recently announced by Olga Skorobogatova, deputy governor of the Central Bank. "The pilot will involve real transactions between real customers - but for a limited number of transactions and for a limited number of customers with thirteen banks that have already confirmed their technical readiness," she said, according to the TASS news agency. Skorobogatova emphasized that the general public cannot participate in the pilot in this first phase, as it will start with selected customers. After the digital ruble has been tested in practice, the bank will decide how the project will be expanded. The Central Bank of Russia proposed the idea of a CBDC in October 2020. It then published a consultation document outlining potential designs for the digital ruble. In later publications, the bank said the project could help make the Russian economy less dependent on the US dollar and mitigate the effects of Western sanctions. In Russia, a digital ID is also being rolled out. "The Russian Ministry of Digital Development, together with the Federal Security Service (FSB), will submit a draft decision before May 1, which will allow for the use of a digital identity document on smartphones instead of a passport in some everyday situations," said Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Interfax news agency. There will be only a few situations in which a digital personal identity card can be legally used instead of a passport, said Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev. "We are not eliminating the passport," he reassured.

ＯＲＢＩＴ Blockchain Transactions Investigation Tool Introduction Orbit is designed to explore network of a blockchain wallet by recursively crawling through transaction history. The data is rendered as a graph to reveal major sources, sinks and suspicious connections. Usage Let's start by crawling transaction history of a wallet python3 orbit.py -s 1AJbsFZ64EpEfS5UAjAfcUG8pH8Jn3rn1F Crawling multiple wallets is no different. python3 orbit.py -s 1AJbsFZ64EpEfS5UAjAfcUG8pH8Jn3rn1F,1ETBbsHPvbydW7hGWXXKXZ3pxVh3VFoMaX Orbit fetches last 50 transactions from each wallet by default, but it can be tuned with -l option. python3 orbit.py -s 1AJbsFZ64EpEfS5UAjAfcUG8pH8Jn3rn1F -l 100 Orbit's default crawling depth is 3 i.e. it fetches the history of target wallet(s), crawls the newly found wallets and then crawls the wallets in the result again. The crawling depth can be increased or decresead with -d option. python3 orbit.py -s 1AJbsFZ64EpEfS5UAjAfcUG8pH8Jn3rn1F -d 2 Wallets that have made just a couple of interactions with our target may not be important, Orbit can be told to crawl top N wallets at each level by using the -t option. python3 orbit.py -s 1AJbsFZ64EpEfS5UAjAfcUG8pH8Jn3rn1F -t 20 If you want to view the collected data with a graph viewer of your choice, you can use -o option. python3 orbit.py -s 1AJbsFZ64EpEfS5UAjAfcUG8pH8Jn3rn1F -o output.graphml Support Formats graphml (Supported by most graph viewers) json (For raw processing) This is your terminal dashboard. Visualization Once the scan is complete, the graph will automatically open in your default browser. If it doesn't open, open quark.html manually. Don't worry if your graph looks messy like the one below or worse. Select the Make Clusters option to form clusters using community detection algorithm. After that, you can use Color Clusters to give different colors to each community and then use Spacify option to fix overlapping nodes & edges. The thickness of edges depends on the frequency of transactions between two wallets while the size of a node depends on both transaction frequency and the number of connections of the node. As Orbit uses to render the graph, more information about the various features and controls is available in Quark's README. Download: [Hidden Content]