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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by EGreg on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:13AM (#15377911)
Why not let them issue their own mobile crypto currency to help each other?

And not just refugees but villages. Helping the unbanked.

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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by astrodust on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:10PM (#15378729)
The unbanked use this amazing new innovation called cash.
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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by PhasmaFelis on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:29PM (#15379370)
I almost upvoted this, but then I realized, with dawning horror, that you might actually be serious.
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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by Joeboy on Sunday October 01, 2017 @05:51PM (#15380039)
Actually... https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/blockchain-against-hun...
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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by EGreg on Sunday October 01, 2017 @06:46PM (#15380314)
Aha!

Maybe now you'll upvote me.

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Re:How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up t... by rjsw on Sunday October 01, 2017 @12:31PM (#15378541)
And they could use it to order meal kits to be delivered by drones /s
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