How Afghan Women Used Bitcoin to Regain Financial Control

Roya Mahboob, co-founder of the Digital Citizen Fund, shared her experience using Bitcoin to pay female employees at her IT firm in Herat, Afghanistan. Facing physical risks from cash payments and cultural barriers to traditional banking, Mahboob turned to Bitcoin as a practical alternative. In a recent op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, she highlighted how the technology allowed women to secure their earnings independently, citing an example of an employee who successfully preserved her savings during her 2016 escape to Germany using her wallet's recovery seed phrase.