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An Unlikely Source of Crypto Innovation: Afghanistan

The repressive Taliban government is suspicious of the internet. But a start-up in the country is building blockchain-based tools to transform humanitarian aid.

© Emile Ducke for The New York Times

Local beneficiaries wait in line to receive their aid payments as part of a Mercy Corps pilot project using HesabPay, a blockchain-based payment system developed in Afghanistan, in the town of Halfaya, Syria.
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