Photo: Pexels.com Since the Taliban took power, US sanctions, bank failures, and cuts in foreign aid and cash transfers have wreaked havoc on Afghanistan's economy. The crook comes to the rescue. Farhan Hotak, 22, from the southern Afghan province of Zabul, had no cash after the Taliban took over in August last year. Mr Hotak's only source of income was a few hundred dollars bitcoin in a virtual wallet. After converting it into a traditional currency, Hotak managed to escape with his family of ten to Pakistan. "After the Taliban took over, corruption spread like wildfire in Afghanistan," he said. "There's almost no other way to get money." Mr. Hotak and his friends use Binance's P2P crypto exchange, which enables them to buy and sell their coins directly with other users on the platform. Mr. Hotak takes temporary refuge in Pakistan and trades in bitcoin and etherium again and now travels back to Afghanistan, blogs and teaches people about cryptocurre...
Everything you never wanted to know about the future. For tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg or Satya Nadella to talk about, Metaverse is the future of the Internet. Or is it a video game? Or maybe it's a deeper uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom? It's hard to say. Photo: Pexels.com Talking to some extent about what "Metaverse" means is like debating the meaning of "Internet" in the 1970s. Building blocks of a new form of communication were in the process of being built, but no one really knew what reality would be like. So while this was true, at the time the "Internet" was coming up, not every idea was correct. On the other hand, there is a lot of marketing hype surrounding this idea of Metaverse. Facebook, in particular, is in a particularly vulnerable position after Apple's move to restrict ad tracking. It's impossible to separate Facebook's future vision, where everyone has a digital closet, given the fact that Facebook really want...