Are digital currencies the answer to Africa’s volatility?

Cryptocurrencies offer the ability for lower-cost and faster remittance payments than is currently available. FILE PHOTO | NMG

African nations have persistently suffered from high inflation rates, robbing citizens of wealth and purchasing power in the past decade. Now a new study recommends that the mass adoption of digital currencies to erase such hurdles.

"Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that have limited supplies, disinflationary monetary models, and decentralized governance, offer protection against these effects," says a report titled The State of Crypto in Africa.

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