Sweden moving closer to Digital Krona

one of the most cashless societies on earth is considering dropping physical Krona in favour of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). About a one-minute read.

Comment: note that roughly ten percent of transactions in Sweden presently use cash, an amazing figure on it’s own. The timeline mentioned in this article is perhaps a tad extreme — November 2022 — and I suspect we’ll see this pulled forward.