I'm Polish and I feel offended by this article, especially the last paragraph. Whatever our national bank did, it's not OK to write about it in such a tone.
As for the grandparent, I think he might be in some english speaking bubble in Poland. My friends that are not IT related and are not living/working abroad are for instance not aware of the same information sources about crypto.
Internet speed ranking is some BS put there to show how Poland is behind. That could be taken out from article. But if author implies that people in Poland are so behind in technology, then they should not dabble in cryptocurrencies, and government is doing right thing.
Just this week I was explaining bitcoin to a friend. He is not frequenting english language internet, only for buying stuff from China. He knew there is bitcoin and that you can earn a lot on it. So I had to make sure that he knows buying bitcoin is buying magic beans from unknown people on internet. So this kind of campaign is good for general public. If someone is really into it, knows risks let him play. For other people, make sure they know the risks and that they can loose real money.
It's not about the "tone" or feeling "offended". It's simply uninformed.
For starters, internet speed ranking is only loosely correlated with overall technological advancement - speaking in the context of developed countries, among which these differences tend to be fairly subtle already.
For what it's worth, the same source the author refers to (Akamai) puts Poland ahead of France (by 17%) and Italy (by 37%) in terms of average internet connection speed. https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the... - is this supposed to indicate France is less technologically advanced? http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2017101...
The World Economic Forum's Networked Readiness Index (which "measures the propensity for countries to exploit the opportunities offered by ICT") places Poland at 7th out of 20 Eastern European countries. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GITR2016/WEF_GITR_Chapter1.1_20...
Also note that the growth rate of R&D expenditure in Poland is among the highest in Europe (Europe in general, not just whatever gets passed off as "Eastern"). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
The problem is not the tone, the problem is ignorance - it doesn't matter if they'd sugarcoat it or not.
This article is inflammatory and lacks proper context.