Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin
I love this part:> 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.OK, great. Next sentence:> That’s why we have always referred to estcoin as a proposed ‘crypto token’.(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:> Governments do need to consider the disruptive impact of how crypto tokens can be used as currencyHahaha. 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 " is ridiculous.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.