'One type of UBI coin I have discussed several years ago in this forum and forgot to mention in my last post was a "geolocalized token". The idea was: instead of distributing the tokens to individuals based on biometric features or national IDs, they could be "dropped" to places around the world and people would have to "collect" them. Tokens could even be dropped regularly inside people's houses.'

In Australia, the unemployment benefit is still called 'the dole' after the century-old practice whereby one went in person to receive a range of foodstuffs -- 'the dole.'

In the early 1980's, I interviewed an elderly man who recalled it from his childhood in the 1930's in Newcastle, New South Wales.

He mentioned that you got a little packet of cigarettes, and that smokers would be 'hangin' out' for the last few days before dole day.