The Canadian Mint wants to create an online currency, and is soliciting developer feedback and involvement. Unlike BitCoin, their “MintChip” technology is a real, sovereign-backed currency. However, it requires a physical device, which makes it closer to a payment technology like Square or Paypal’s equivalent.
An interesting look at a web-scale design challenge; how he approaches the problem is almost as interesting as his actual solution.
This is great news for Twitter’s usability and also the web in general, since now the biggest and most visible proponent of this terrible idea will have abandoned the practice.
It’s really interesting to see how much they are built on work at other industry leaders like LinkedIn and Twitter.
