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by malmsteen 2757 days ago
So criminals and "not yet developped" people living inplaces where they dont have a good banking systemp but are somehow educated enough to use bitcoin.

Lol

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Actually the people living in underbanked areas are pretty well served by mobile payment systems.[1]

Of course that's not completely anonymous and can't necessarily be used for dodgy stuff (there are certain KYC requirements) but it seems to server the developing world a whole lot better than crypto currencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa