A Bitcoin-Inspired Digital Currency, Stellar, Will Power Mobile Savings Accounts for Poor Teenage Girls | MIT Technology Review
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Proponents of the digital currency Bitcoin have often argued that money made out of computer code could help poor people access financial services. But so far applications for the technology have been almost exclusively aimed at people with Internet access and smartphones. Now a South African nonprofit is preparing to give the idea its first real test.
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