💵 Vitalik Buterin visited Bhutan — the kingdom became the first country to transfer national identity cards directly to the blockchain $ETH .

🕔 This week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and EF President Aya Miyaguchi arrived in Thimphu for the official launch ceremony of the National Digital Identity (Bhutan NDI).

🪪 The entire identification system relies on zk-proofs, citizens will be able to verify data without disclosing it to private companies and even the government.

🔗 Of course, Vitalik could not miss such an event, for Ethereum this is a significant breakthrough: the structure of an entire state is moving to their network.

Last year, journalists discovered that the country secretly mines bitcoin at hydroelectric power stations and has already accumulated reserves estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars — for such a small country, this amounts to up to 40% of GDP 🧪