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Yes, but you likely live in a first-world country with generous options for banking. Bitcoin can serve anyone anywhere, regardless if they live in a privileged country or not. Try using your USD bank to send/receive money as a citizen of Iran or Libya or Nigeria. There are over 1 billion unbanked in the world today. They cannot use the US dollar easily online.


This is the fallback argument crypto enthusiasts use when their primary arguments fail. I'd like to learn more about the truth to this claim.


I work on an international team and 2 of our devs are based in Nigeria. Nigeria currently suffers from 16% annual inflation and so the people have flocked to crypto as a store of value. Over 20% of the population uses cryptocurrencies. There are many more examples including Venezuela, Iran, the West Bank, and El Salvador.


You still need internet and some device to use crypto. Many don't have that.


Consider that many more have internet and a smartphone than a bank account. There are over 1 billion unbanked in the world, many of those have internet and smartphones. You would be surprised at the spread of smartphones amongst the world's poor - much greater than the prevalence of bank accounts with FDIC insurance or the equivalent.




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