OSF Explores Using Blockchain Technology to Help Migrants

Friday, January 26, 2018

OSF Explores Using Blockchain Technology to Help Migrants

OSF awarded a $100,000 grant to the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University, which is exploring using blockchain and other new technologies to record rights violations and atrocities.

The most obvious way migrants could use blockchain technology to securely store money while traveling would be to convert cash into digital currency, but Soros dismissed the value of cryptocurrency, making clear he believed its primary appeal was “for tax evasion” and “the rulers of dictatorships.”

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