A Kenyan uses M-Pesa, the world's largest mobile payment system. Image: World Bank
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Argentina
A short film about Bitcoin in Argentina (http://bitcoinfilm.org/)
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Ukraine
Still, the use of Bitcoin in a political context was a reminder of its insulation from political pressure, the kind that kept Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard for processing payments for WikiLeaks in 2010. There are other interesting use cases for Bitcoin in a country undergoing political unrest and economic turmoil. When ATMs are running out of cash and banks are on the brink of default, an alternative currency begins to look more promising; you can't prevent someone from moving their Bitcoin wealth out of a country through an online transaction or brain wallet. The flexibility of bitcoins in these kinds of situations lends them a kind of intrinsic value that can in typical situations be much harder to see.An interesting photo of a Russian bank (Sberbank) in downtown Kiev #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/PebpRaCc84
— Amy Kellogg (@kellogglondon) March 5, 2014
Photo: Flickr/public domain
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Kenya
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