Royal Canadian Mint sells MintChip™ to nanoPay

Toronto based payments company nanoPay have acquired the digital currency platform MintChip™ from the Royal Canadian Mint. MintChip™ is “a digital replacement for cash” and, the company says, with backing from the Government of Canada, is the first regulator-friendly digital cash platform. “As a digital payment technology with many of the attributes of cash, MintChip™…