Why can't a stablecoin pay someone with no internet?
Opportunity
Digital money is meant to reach the people banks never did, but it falls over the moment the connection does. Offline and intermittent payments, settled once a signal returns, are how cash works and how much of the world still lives. Crypto rarely designs for that.
Why it matters
Payments that only work with perfect connectivity are not payments for most of the planet.
How I score the opportunity
The Opportunity Score is my own read, not a measurement: how much it hurts, how often it bites, and how little exists to solve it today. Higher means I think it is more worth building.
How much pain it causes when it shows up.
How often people actually run into it.
How little good tooling exists for it today.
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