Salaries to remittances: Afghans embrace crypto amid financial chaos

13 October 2021

Department of Information Systems & Analytics, Faculty, News Media

When Roya Mahboob began paying her staff and freelancers in Afghanistan in bitcoin nearly 10 years ago, little did she know that for some of these women the digital currency would be their ticket out of the country after the fall of Kabul in August.

Reuters, 11 October 2021

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