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A migrant worker from Myanmar looks at his cellphone at a wholesale market for shrimp and other seafood in Mahachai, in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, July 4, 2017.

A tech startup called OMG wants to revolutionize cash for hundreds of millions of ‘unbanked’ people in Asia

Technology

Bangkok-based OmiseGO envisions a world where cash is digital and free-flowing, stored on blockchains, accessible by smartphones and effortlessly zapped across borders. It’s a human right, they say. And they’re starting with Asia’s farmers, merchants, migrants and factory hands, who are now quite likely to own smartphones but may not have bank accounts.