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Alex Gladstein: How Poor Countries Prop Up Rich Countries

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

CHAPTER

I Met a Whole Lot of Bitcoiners From Benin

Bitcoin and the lighting network kind of allow fiat users in different places to just instantly kind of interact with each other. I met a whole bunch of Bitcoiners from Benin, which is like actually the the country where the Dohumi kingdom used to be. You have a even bigger place. And it's just very difficult to send money from here to there and there's different restrictions and everybody's trying to take a cut so why not one standard for the whole continent?

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