Zimbabwe is not that small. Its M1 is $12G according to the CIA. That's much more than Bitcoin's monetary base has ever been, even during its all time high. I have a hard time believing this.

The Sealand story is more credible though, as that's a really tiny sovereign country (smallest on Earth?) and its prince seems to be tech-savvy. (they attempted to make Sealand a data haven, for ex.). But still, I wouldn't hold my breath. Let's see.

I think i read somewhere that digital cash is already very popular in Africa and that they do most payments with their cellphone. Not sure though. As for the Zimbabwe story, sounds more like a joke to me.

I don't think it will work for any country to implement bitcoins as the official currency. The deflation would take away all the export gains of the country and isolate the whole country.

Until I read news like this at a website that doesn't have "bitcoin" in it's name, I'm not going to believe anything like this.

sealand is within uk territory now after they extended what is brithis (ie not international waters any more), i would think that platform is uk territory ?

It's a fake to make you to buy more bitcoins.

I think they don't export so much and they are already isolated.
May be they are meaning to introduce bitcoins for foreign trading which would help imports.

Bitcoin has never been tried at such a wide scale in a single country, this is probably bupkiss though given their hyperinflation problems making their existing money absolutely worthless I could see this happening in some country sometime soon.

Why is deflationary a bad thing? Is it bad your money continues to appreciate in value over time instead of losing it like the Euro of Dollar never to recover their spending power? People need to disconnect fiat currency from crypto-currencies, they do not work the same and cannot be compared in an economic way. Bitcoin's deflationary nature ensure hyperinflation never occurs which I think has been proven to be infinitely worse for an economy.

CNN reports also:
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-957375
Lets see.
It bitcoin goes up this month over 500 $ then we know why.