The Taliban took over the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday as America’s 20-year war came to a sudden end. In sheer panic, Afghans ran to banks to scramble for cash, only to find them evacuated with their money locked up. Many wondered about the safety of people on the ground, wondered what would happen in the coming days and weeks as the Taliban returned to power, and watched in horror as people rushed to the airport in an effort to leave the country. Along with these concerns, Bitcoin maximalists also wondered aloud how the cryptocurrency could fix the country’s problems or could have prevented the war in the first ... (full story)