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As Iceland's Auroracoin “Airdrop” Approaches, What Does It Mean When A Nation Adopts A Cryptocurrency?
Iceland has its own Satoshi. A programmer called Baldur Friggjar Odinsson has created an alternative to bitcoin that he is calling AuroraCoin and in twenty-three days he will “airdrop” 31.8 coins to every citizen of Iceland – all 330,000 of them. It is, in short, a pretty ballsy move.
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I've been getting sick of all these cryptocurrency stories all around the place, but this one is actually very interesting because the government is involved. I'd guess that in a bigger country it would be much harder to implement.
Yeah, 300k people is less than the city I live in. And it's not even that big.
I'd love to see this catch on as a local/regional currency and become successful.