@sun @eriner it won't happen
no western government is competent enough to come up with such a scheme, nor has the political will to stand up to overwhelming opposition from every business that finds out how much it'll cost and how many years it'll take to upgrade their infrastructure.

would you like a shitty, half-assed national digital ID system that costs hundreds of billions more than planned, and takes 10 years longer than planned to build out so it's worthlessly outdated by the time it's ready to go instead? online banking will require a java plugin that's so fucking poorly written and unreliable that it's easier to just drive to the bank and wait in line for the teller.