Thanks BobK71, more on that below .....

It seems that my joke about the tomatoes was prescient

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-22/pippa-malmgren-talks-bitcoin-refugee-crisis-and-plunge-protection-team
"The question is whose e-money. So everybody in government circles have been
watching the Indian experience because the prime minister stepped up to the
platform in early November and basically said we are going to move all of you,
a billion people, off paper money and onto electronic money, and we are going
to do it in three months. They did it, and they did it successfully."

Well, she would say that wouldn't she?

Failure is likely defined as "tanks in the streets" though that response is
so 1989 ....