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Yeah seems goes along the same way at the Estonian digital citizenship that showed up here a few years ago.

Does sound like a PR stunt. Personally wouldn't touch it.

I don't think the Estonian digital citizenship is anywhere near as bad as this, I thought it was a genuine way to get digital documentation within an EU state?

It's quite real, although, in a sense, the word "digital" is just a decoy. What they offer (e.g., digital signing of documents and online access to bureaucracy) should really be the default in the EU (or at least available in every member state, interoperably).

It's digital (or E-) residency, not citizenship. It provides an Estonian personal identification number and digital access to Estonian digital services (which is 99% of all government services + many private and banking sector). There are over 25,000 companies founded by E-residents, and most by people who does not reside in Estonia or even EU.

You shouldn't compare a crypto-scam with such legit service.

Source: Both physical and e-resident of Estonia.

A cursory look at the Estonian thing and it seems 1000% more legit than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia

mmm has anyone used Estonian digital citizenship. Digital and citizenship just doesn't really sit well for me. But I can be wrong, looking for someone who have actually have a citizenship to comment on the all the legal implication, document manage, etc related to the digital citizenship.

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