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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

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Microfinance institutions are able to offer more competitive loan rates to their users to take advantage of lower costs due to dealing in cash. In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. What are mobile payments?

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

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The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. Just look at your measures in terms of cost-benefit.