[ihsw]

The Royal Canadian Mint developed MintChip[1] however there has been little interest.

There's a scathing Forbes blog post[2] too, if you're interested.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/04/12/mintchip-m...

[haakon]

Note, however, that the "scathing Forbes blog post" was written by the Bitcoin Foundation's press secretary.