The Taliban, Women's Rights and the rise of Bitcoin
You'd have to be living under a rock to have not witnessed the scenes of chaos emerge for Afghanistan as the United States and it's Allies leave Afghanistan after a 20 year war that amounted to having the Taliban re-emerge as the nation's leading faction.
The move has sent millions trying to flee the nation with women being one of the most vulnerable within the nation.
The Taliban quickly ran to the nation's bank to access cash supply. In Afghanistan under Taliban rule women are not permitted to have bank accounts or earn money and their money if they have some must be held in trust of their father, brother or partner.
One third of Afghanistan wealth is tied up in United States reserves which prompted Biden to quickly freeze the Taliban's access to the cash Source with many allied nations doing the same.
Women have been rushing to banks to withdraw their money prior to the Taliban getting a hold of it. With women employed as Bankers already removed from employment and replaced with men. As women are not permitted to work under Taliban rule, furthermore it has led to women shredding university degrees as women are also not permitted to go to university.
Roya Mahoob whom was named one of the world's top 100 most influential people has been working with women across Afghanistan to train them in STEAM fields. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.
In 2017 a STEM team was established and won numerous awards for their work utilising renewable energy that supports farmers maintain their crops. President Trump had to intervene as even not under Taliban control they were being limited in participation in global contests. They were subsequently allowed to attend with Trumps push and won.
Roya is Co-founder and CEO of Digital Citizen Fund and has been in operation for 8 years teaching Afgahni women financial literacy. Due to the harsh environment towards women and ownership the organisation had to be established in New York for Roya to lead.
Bitcoins use in women's rights
A campaign has been launched to secure the financial freedom of women in Afghanistan with Digital Citizen Fund implementating Bitcoin to pay women and to have their wealth transferred to bitcoin and bitcoin wallets.
Bitcoin wallets enable women to hide their wealth with anonymous wallets and also enable cross country trading. They also provide an additional support for women fleeing the nation. Previously asylum seekers would sow gold and items of wealth into their clothes and carry them on long journeys. The added extra weight would slow down people moving as well as put them at risk of being robbed as thief's would often target fleeing people. Bitcoin alleviates this risk by being held online and only accessible by the person that holds the wallet key.
Digital Citizen Fund is also accepting donations in cryptocurrency to support women and also pay them for their work is private. You can reach the organisations page Here
Taliban and Bitcoin
The Taliban's main income stream at current is from the sale of opium. Reports are coming in that with the freezing of assets that Taliban is also utilising Bitcoin to facilitate their trade.
Things are beginning to escalate in the nation and leaders are already beginning to problem solve many of the issues arising since the Taliban return to power.
It's interesting that Bitcoin is being used as a means to support women's rights and circumnavigate the oppressive regime. The same can be said with the current sanctions imposed by the US and its Allies on Taliban funds. As they enter negotiations to access their money the IMF and global banks are hesitant to provide access to it in the event it aids the creation of a new terrorist organisation.
Time will tell how this will pan out but it has also provided a spanner in the works for KYC and US regulations surrounding brokers as any legislative change will now negatively impact women's liberation as economic participation in Afghanistan. A move US law makers are currently aware of and are keeping in their thoughts.
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Sure...provided if you have access to the internet.
That is the downside of cryptocurrency but if there is infrastructure to undertake online banking then there would be infrastructure to participate in Bitcoin.
Well the fact that they have do do things anonymously is something of concern. When they do need the money (aka when they sell), it will eventually go to the exchanges and if the Taliban gets access to the data there, it will be a huge mess.
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The problem is when you try to impose your culture on others.
West loves democracy only when and where it suits it. Democracy is denied when people choose Hamas in Palestine.
Afghan people (especially women) are far secure under taliban than they were under any regime(backed by US).
So US went there to liberate women???Really.... Just like they went to Iraq to find WMDs...
What a Joke!
You cited Taliban sold Opium but the facts state when last time they came to power they banned opium harvesting. And they are eradicating it now as we speak.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210819-taliban-vow-to-ban-heroin-but-can-they-survive-without-it
US backed regime was corrupt and total failure. Hell they trained 300,000 afghan army...which never bothered to fight talibans.
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Thank you for engaging my friend. There is alot to unpack in that response and some of it goes far beyond my knowledge such as the Hamas and Isreal politics. Acknowledging that there was alot of errors in how that went about, but it was the English that established Isreal and I am fully aware of past empires as they almost decimated my people here in Australia. But it is not a situation I have comment on because I simply do not know.
The current issue with Afghanistan is that Al-Qaeda had set it up as a base which prompted Bush's entry. I want to be clear both Iraq and Afghanistan situations were handled poorly and should not have occurred in that way.
Afghanistan was a progressive state many years ago which didn't require stringent Shaira law. The Taliban took hold removing democracy and women's rights.
Even in Western Cultures women are treated poorly so the west has no moral high ground to claim we do it better. But the scenes coming out of Afghanistan is of fear. If I may say, the announcements of the removal of women's rights are concerning.
I am open to learning more.
I have just one request to you, man.
Please don't believe what main stream media tells and show you. False propaganda and disinformation have clouded the truth. Even centralized media is not safe. Look at twitter and FB.
Thats why we are here at hive where any one can speak his/her mind.
I am telling you because I live within 100km of Afghanistan. And real situation on ground is totally different. We have Afghan refugees here and trust me they are so happy with Kabul fall.
People there in Afghanistan are also happy that Taliban took over because they think Talban will end social un-justice, like they had done 20 years ago.
I am not a supporter of Taliban but I feel that West (and every one else) should leave Afghanistan and Afghan to decide their fate. Afghanistan is a tribal society and western democratic norms doesn't apply there.
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I think the issue i have with all this is that from the perspective of the us government their mission was to get osama bin laden.
Now i'm not really sure how it goes from that to establish women rights in afghanistan. Bring democracy to afghanistan that is part of nation building. That is complex in a world that culturally is different. Secondly i don't even know if it's appropriate to make a call like that unless the people in that region want that and have firmly established a call to action.
Prior to us going to afghanistan i don't know if such a call was ever established. Certainly not by the international community. Which brings me to the next part. The international community has been greatly opionated on this. My question is what has the international community done in response to this outcry? Who's stopping them? It would appear it can't be the united states because they have drawn down troops etc., and everything else.
In humanitarian need which i'd call afghanistan. i thikn they are appropriately calling it a civil war. However, these western nations could do something about this. I mean is it just political lip service because they don't have to risk anything? They don't have to risk $300 million a day.. death of their own soldiers? Maybe when its necessary to make those sacrifices it's just lip service.
The thing is if they really cared about the afghanistan people they'd do something about it.. I know first hand americans don't even care. Let me prove to you why? They yes complain about the scene at the airport.. however when it's time to take afghanis from a war torn country and put them some place. Would you imagine those same people don't want those people to come to their country. Most western nations who have all these opinions aren't going to want those refugees in their countries.
As if this wasn't happening in afghanistan prior to the us invasion. Women in afghanistan weren't geting any equal rights then. the world didn't complain then. The world is responsible not the united states. We all responsible we all aren't taking any responsiblity though. That's the fact of the matter and people are mostly full of it. It's easy to talk about it when you know you're not going to do anything about it.
I also think that yes its good in an economic troubled land to have bitcoin helpful. however afghanistan is much too complicated and far gone for bitcoin to be any winner scenario. they are in a bad place by western standards have always been. if anything and i don't mean this the wrong way..however if anything america gave these people about 20 years of freedom or what we call freedom they wouldn't have had period. it sucks that they losing it and weren't ready to fight to keep it. however they are just returning to the country they had prior. thats the truth behind it. it's not even a different government. THey just returning to their legitimate government they always had 20 years ago the taliban and besides political jargon and blaming political parties we don't like. Americans don't even care the world doesn't care about any of these people. They don't because if they did australia, germany, england, freaking russia whoever would be doing something about it. It's not in their economic interest nor do they care about the people so they won't do anything. it's shameful but they are hypocrites and many of the right wingers those trump supporters who wanna attack biden that overpopulate the hive blockchain with their nonhuman lying selves. They don't really care about these people. They just wanna have something to blame biden because they preferred trump as president but again when its time for the afghanis to find a place to live they will be the same ones saying they don't want those people here and treating them poorly or maybe even killing them.
They'd say send more troops there under someone like trump and try to bully people. the thing is though when the soldiers start getting shot again and wounded and killed and limbs blown off. THen they'll go back to end these forever wars. So everyone is full of it. When i see action that's when i believe what they say and how they feel. So it's just all political nonsense right now. Only thing with validity is biden pulled those troops out and they went home which is where they should have been. They killed bin laden it was no reason to be there. THey should have left then and let the taliban go back to rulership anyway. THey should have never tried to arm afghanis would weren't going to fight anyway. The reason is because as the data shows. so what if afghanistan could try to resurrect terrorist bases around teh world. We could have then monitored that not being in the country. What about all the other terrorist base around the globe. We going to occupy every nation like that? Makes no sense its stupid. So again people got lost in the political storm and over sensationlized by media images and their opinions. These people for a long long time been living like that going through all this stuff and if the world wants a better place. Your country can't sit home and just go well the united states messed up. It's your country responsibility to respond to humanitarian aid. To assist in a troubled unjust world because if you're not going to do that. THen i dont think you should have a valid opinion about it. What's that make other nations that can sit back and have the ability to do something about it but its never their responsiblity its always someone elses. Doesn't matter who fumbles teh ball. It's everyones responsibility to deal with injustice if they want a better world. So sitting back waiting for the us govt to fumble the ball and just going yea those amreicans screwed up. That does'nt take away your own responsibility does it?
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The US isn't the only nation there, Australia and alot of other nations have been there since day one also. We have also suffered terrorist attacks because of it.
There are a number of ways that it could have been handled, I'm not sure how much of it is legal in today's world of law for wars but cutting off Kabul from the rest of the nation and setting up a permanent fixture to support the Afghani people could have been one.
But then the risk of establishing another Hamas and Isreal situation also occurs.
I think the devil in the detail is that the Taliban had 75,000 troops while the US and allies trained up 300,000 Afghani military. All of which fled or put down arms. So clearly alot don't want the US there. But what of the millions trying to flee?
I personally don't think this is over and splinter cells are already starting to form.
Yes i understand what you saying that different allied forces were there. The issue with all that then is okay if let's say australia was there and canada and germany and maybe even france. I think it's safe to assume they would all be in some agreement together. There would be one supreme command and everyone probably would agree to be under that. That sounds organized you wouldn't want everyone doing operations at once because that could cause mass confusion.
So then if everyone is there wouldn't that be a joint effort? I would imagine that would even be better and the operation would go more smooth. the next part is i have to assume the us govt would be in charge of everyone. So if the operation is not successful everything is under the direction of the us govt every other western nation. Okay that's fine that sounds like it would probably work that way.
Once the us govt decides to pull out under whatever date they agree. it's 2 individual forces now or more in the fray. The first is the afghani government and as a sovereign nation. Like for example the us govt only mission was to get bin laden not annex afghanistan. So if we tore up something in the process we should fix it.. but government building should have never been our direction. if we didn't like the taliban for protecting bin laden that was still up to the afghani people after we got bin laden if they wanted that government or not. that wasn't up to us to decide that.
So my understanding was that biden asked the afghani government were they ready to fight.. what did they want us to do next. according to joe biden the afghani government would always assure the us government they were ready to fight. now what i'm trying to figure out. is at what point does the afghan govt get to decide when they ready to fight on their own. .when they ready to run their own govt. or do we the united states decide that? if the country themselves were saying we fine.. i know the people weren't saying that but all i'm saying is at some point we have to let the country itself decide its destiny. Not everyone in afghanistan wanted the united states there in fact i think many didn't want the us govt there. So what right we have to keep making policy for the afghanis.
Now going back to the other forces that were there the international community. They got all this criticism where i'm confused is okay if those armies were there. United States leaving did they have any policy in place on how to deal with afghanistan seeing that the united states says they taking their hands off the ball?
What were the other nations policies on afghanistan? What is it now? Do they have one? Do they have a strategy or a future mission into afghanistan. It would seem that world safety and injustice and whatever forms of barbarianism may exist around the world. Does it have to be the united states and if the united states does'nt do anything. I mean the united states is one advanced civilization in the entire world.
Other nations quickly remind america you're not the only advanced nation and they are right. What i'm trying to say is the world doesn't have to just follow or wait on the united states to fix a problem. My assumption is other nations went to afghanistan because whatever reason the united states said they were going were in their best interest to go. So does that interest go away because the united states leaves? Why do they need teh united states in there? If they don't need the united states then again any criticism can happen after the afghanis have their country secure. Anybody can be blamed then. I don't think its a reason for the world to sit back and watch pandemonium because they felt the united states acted irresponsibly does that make sense?
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