I had posted this in the low content thread but I figured there is enough news about this topic lately to start a new thread. I came across this on a local(in Canada) news website but after looking further into the subject it seems to be become popular in Sweden as well.
Just to make sure we are all on the same page, I hope we all understand that bitcoin and that mintchip are similar the way a statue of a man is similar to a living breathing man. One is dead from the get go [=bitcoin] because of Mises regression theorem, the other is, or will be, a legitimate fiat currency.