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Afghanistan’s Crypto Lifeline

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How the embattled digital currency is shoring up a country in dire straits.

Photo: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Arezo doesn’t recall exactly how it happened. She remembers watching news footage of the Taliban milling around the presidential palace after then-President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan, their rifles on display atop his lofty, glass-top desk. She remembers being forced to leave her job, which she loved, as a web designer and reporter’s assistant. As a Shia Muslim, she remembers fearing for her life, after hearing rumors that the

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