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Besides ease of international transactions, consider that only 41% of adults in developing nations have bank accounts and only 7% of adults in developing nations have credit cards. With Bitcoin and perhaps technology built around it, they can now have access to banking-like features, but without the credit profile which they probably lack, and importantly they can join the digital age and conduct transactions online without the need for credit cards.


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