And now Bhutan wants a digital currency. Will a new payment instrument make the 800, 000-strong, mostly Buddhist society happier than it already is?... But already, 97% of the population has access to the Internet, most of them via their mobile phones.... Any sudden preference among the people to use the e-CNY because it’s convenient to send and receive via smartphones could be destabilising. With the Reserve Bank of India in no hurry to start offering a digital rupee, Bhutan is perhaps right