Bhutan’s Blockchain Odyssey: From Polygon to Ethereum 🚀

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Once upon an absurdly recent time, the Kingdom of Bhutan decided to embark on an epic journey of cryptographic transcendence, swapping its national ID’s old wooden horse, Polygon, for the shiny, new Ethereum chariot. Prepared for this quantum leap of logic were the nation’s nearly 800,000 souls, ready to use not just a scroll or a magic wand but a blockchain to verify their existence and partake in the splendor of governmental digital services.

“It’s done, as far as we know,” mused the Ethereum Foundation President Aya Miyaguchi during a routine coffee break in 2026. “The whole shebang of citizen credentials is set to finish by the time humans finally decide what sandwiches to eat for lunch in the first quarter.”

1/ Today, Bhutan marks a historic point in techno-gnomical affairs – the first nation to do a blockchain tango with Ethereum. 🇧🇹 @VitalikButerin and I attended the ceremony while adjusting our ceremonial robes. (Or was it those 3D-printed party hats?) – Aya Miyaguchi (@AyaMiyagotchi) October 13, 2025

Accompanied by their exceptionally de-sheremented Prime Minister, Tshering Tobgay, and his perpetually bemused Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuk, Miyaguchi and the wizard of all things Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, joined the official ceremony, featuring dancing goats and singing mountain peaks, perhaps.

Miyaguchi proclaimed the event as not just a “world-first,” but also a suitably dramatic falling action in the universal narrative of “how not to lose your ID documents.” She declared that Bhutan’s vision-marinated committals had set a beacon for a world eager for secure digital doppelgängers.

A Quantum Step in the Blockchain Ballet

Bhutan’s latest blockchain sojourn is its third. Previously the kingdom exercised its identity musculature with Hyperledger Indy and then Polygon, making this Ethereum caper the grand finale of sorts. Reviews suggest Ethereum stands shoulder to shoulder (and occasionally ankle-deep) in the vast and tumultuous sea of blockchain stability, compatible with those delightful zero-knowledge proofs that assure everybody and their mother that their secrets are…just that, secret.

Brazil and Vietnam dabbled in this, though Bhutan’s national strategy has set it miles ahead – or shall we say, Yottabytes away in techno-gnome land.

Bhutan: The Crypto Kingdom Nobody Knew They Needed

Beyond its identity kerfuffle, Bhutan wisely curated a Bitcoin collection that rivaled Cleopatra’s hoard of cats…or currency. With 11,286 BTC acquired through sustainable and oddly musical hydropower mining, Bhutan became the kingdom every fan of cryptocurrency has secretly wished to own. At about $1.31 billion, they were just going green.

Speculation thrived post a clandestine tea meeting between Bhutan’s bureaucrats and a not-so-retired former Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao. Potential crypto alliances lurked around the corner, like an old friend from the future or perhaps just another digital creature in search of fame and fortune.

In spite of everything, or perhaps buoyed by it, Bhutan’s relentless march towards crypto-consciousness continues. May their passably rational proclivities continue to enlighten less blockchain-savvy nations as they race to shave off milliseconds from their own digital nirvana.

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2025-10-14 07:02