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Can blockchain technology help poor people around the world?

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageNo need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain. Houman Haddad/UN World Food Program

Big Wall Street companies are using a complicated technology called blockchain to further increase the already lightning-fast speed of international finance. But it’s not just the upper crust of high finance who can benefit from this new technology.

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