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by mirntyfirty 1530 days ago
This isn’t happening and it’s not the purpose.

“Unbanked” is an imaginary word. If a person is “unbanked”, it’s likely that they are also “uninternetted” and/or “uncomputered.”

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And even more, "unmonied".
That's really not true. You'll find a lot more people with no bank account than you will with no internet access at all. Many of the poorest in the world still have at least a cheap cell phone with some internet access.
There are actually "unbanked" Africans, according to this article they just use their mobile provider's feature of credit transfer to bank that way: https://archive.ph/imZOj - it allows them to buy and sell things and settle debts by transferring digital money between phone numbers.

But probably not good enough for the crypto-bros, it's a centralized system!!1!!