"Nigeria Protests Show Bitcoin Adoption Is Not Coming: It’s Here": https://www.coindesk.com/nigeria-bitcoin-adoption reminds me that also M-Pesa (the very interesting Kenyan payment system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa) grew a lot during the 2008 post-electoral riots ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279750696_Overflows_of_Technological_Innovation_in_Emerging_Economies_The_Case_of_M-Pesa ) Gianluca Miscione University College Dublin http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione (Email responses may be delayed as UCD faculty and staff are working remotely) Any personal data provided to University College Dublin, National University of Ireland (UCD) will be processed by UCD as data controller in accordance with data protection law. For further information on how UCD uses your personal data and for information on your data protection rights and how to exercise them, please see the UCD Data Protection Policy http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/UCD_Data_ Protection_ Policy_May_2018.pdf Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) stated above. If you are not an addressee, any use, dissemination, distribution, publication, or copying of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited