Anyone can, literally, make money: even Zimbabwe, when it ran out of the paper needed to print its rapidly devaluing currency on, printed state issued IOUs on what was, basically, photocopy stock with a rubber stamp.

But in terms of available technology, that's a Luddite's solution. If Greece really wants to fix its internal problems, which are what caused and are perpetuating the crisis, it is remarkably simple, quick and above all cheap. Better still, the solution will release euros, which can be used to pay down its external debt. All it needs to do is license a customised, personalised version of Bitcoin.

It's an obvious and logical solution. After all, in reality, there is no such thing as money, only people's confidence in what they, in concert with others, accept as a means of exchange. So, eDrachma, with a limited amount in issue and a limited time for spending (to prevent what some would consider savings and some would consider hoarding), which is possible using existing Bitcoin technology which both limits supply and, with minor tweaking, can expire "coins," could be credited, via ATMs or into dedicated bank accounts, for the making of all state payments. Pensions, grants, benefits, tax rebates, salaries for employees in government and government linked businesses, government purchases of goods and services.

Such a scheme would not touch Greece's foreign exchange and it would not touch its income, by way of taxes, from those outside the government boundary. This would mean that the government would continue to receive a supply of Euros from ordinary taxpayers and those who buy government services. Because they would not be used for any kind of government spending, those euros would be available to pay the country's external debt.

In the hands of the government-related population, both people and businesses, eDrachma would be used for the payment of taxes, school and medical fees - in fact any spending with the government, including government owned or linked shops or shops with which the government enters into special arrangements. Such shops would take a proportion of their money in eDrachma but most, from non-government linked sources, would be in euros. The eDrachma taken in by businesses would pay taxes, etc. and other business expenses would be paid in euros. Therefore the eDrachma are recycled quickly, like cash - what the government spends this month will, in taxes, rents and other charges and fees come back next month. The money supply need not expand greatly.

eDrachmas could be traded, so allowing those paid exclusively in eDrachma to have access to euros for spending unrelated to government.

The government's expenditure would dramatically reduce. Its need for euros for domestic purposes would fall off a cliff. The economy would stabilise - and time would be bought during which Greece could come up with a plan to repay its international debt out of the savings made by not having to pay its domestic bills in Euros. That time would be far shorter than all present estimates (some of which are "never") because, internally, the government would have no use for euros.

And Greece can return to a Euro based domestic economy when its external relations have stabilised and debts met.