Canada IS taking bitcoin seriously, that is huge ups ... and the whole MintChip thing is so vaguely defined as to be basically vapour-ware at this stage ... they are saying "we know we need to do something and we are prepared to throw out $50k in bullion to devs for good ideas" ...f!, that's all they got?
Satoshi is casting a giant shadow when you look at how behind the competition is ... they could do worse than just fork bitcoin call it MintChipCoin, give it some kind of small change convertibility to loonies and marry it up to a hardware device (who knows why are they obsessing over that part of it ??) .... I might just throw that idea in there for a shot at the bullion.
Mostly just a gratuitous comment because at last we can ....
