To add to this point, M-Pesa has been a huge success in Kenya, but has had trouble expanding to other countries because of some inherent limitations of M-Pesa'

To add to this point, M-Pesa has been a huge success in Kenya, but has had trouble expanding to other countries because of some inherent limitations of M-Pesa's model. A cryptocurrency could enable the next evolution of mobile payment services like M-Pesa. I touched on this in a past blog post: https://medium.com/@petershin45/hate-bitcoin-this-might-change-your-mind-837963c24d70 https://medium.com/@petershin45/hate-bitcoin-this-might-chan... (You can scroll down to the section titled "How Bitcoin can help the poor and unbanked")