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"If Estonia succeeds with its plan to create a token for its e-residents to trade in, it could be the monetary glue to hold its ‘digital nation’ together. Electronic payments specialist Dave Birch theorized in his book, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, that the future of money is one where ‘community is no longer geography,’ and it’s communities who will have the most to gain from issuing their own, customized forms of money."

From "Estonia's planning an ICO for estcoins despite Mario Draghi's warning — Quartz".

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