Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin
I love this part:<p>> Estonia’s only currency is the euro and this is an essential feature of our EU membership, which we are proud to have. No one here is interested in changing that.<p>OK, great. Next sentence:<p>> That’s why we have always referred to estcoin as a proposed ‘crypto token’.<p>(top highlight!) Wow, clever! It's not a currency! Oppressive EU regulations (that we agree with and are not interested in changing) have been obeyed. Next sentence:<p>> Governments do need to consider the disruptive impact of how crypto tokens can be used as currency<p>Hahaha. Sorry, but this "we're launching a currency that we don't call a currency but that everybody, including us, knows is meant to be a currency <wink>" is ridiculous.<p>All that said, I think issuing some sort of government-backed currency might be one way of experimenting with implementing a universal basic income, in order to combat poverty among your citizens. But I don't see that discussed in the article.