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I actually think Bitcoin could help poorer people more than it can the rich.

It already is capable of doing that. If cryptocurrencies do nothing but put Western Union out of the foreign remittance business, they will save billions of dollars for people to whom that kind of money still means something.



Protip: "poorer" is not a synonym for "foreign".


Look at the next word in the sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance

People receiving remittances from relatives working overseas tend to be on the poorer end of the spectrum.




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