Great X post on the utility of crypto for people in Afghanistan:

Founder of Airwallex hasn't seen a single use case for crypto over the last 15 years

Post like these are confounding and frankly make no sense to me. Here's a question - do you think Jack's answer would change if he were dropped into Afghanistan or Syria with all his money?

Since we're talking about Afghanistan and the problems that crypto solves for us, here’s the reality.

&gt; Currently there's no international banking in Afghanistan
&gt; We're heavily reliant on getting USD from Western Union if someone sends money from outside - Western Union cut is

Abbas Khan

Great X post on the utility of crypto for people in Afghanistan: https://x.com/khanabbas201/status/1931745625349181947?s=46

Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Runs /dropglobalnews

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I remember a postmortem Jon Stewart did on an interview with Mark Cuban where he said crypto was just reinventing Western Union, and that really spoke to his broad ignorance of everything involved.