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Like all new dawns, there comes a time for change. In the developing world and Third World — Africa and Asia notwithstanding — access to banking structures in the traditional model, as well as other modern financial systems, has always been hard to come by. Latin America is no exception to the rule. The popularity of the internet over the last two decades and the way it has been adopted wholeheartedly in Central and South America has seen a surge in interest of alternative ways to transfer money and save it. From the 25 million internet users worldwide half a century ago to over 3 billion in 2019, it is no surprise that just over 32 million bitcoin wallets have been set up around the world by December 2018 and approximately seven million active bitcoin users.