Synopsis
Joel Michael, a climate entrepreneur and founder of Circulatory Global, believes that digital currencies can solve the problem of social evils. He is working towards bringing the sanitation workers in Kerala into the formal economy with the use of programmable digital currencies.
For a state that is known for its highest literacy rate, Kerala for the longest time has struggled with addiction to liquor and lottery tickets. The state had shut down 730 bars, stopped issuing new licences and had allowed only five-star bars and some state-sponsored shops to serve liquor. While it led to some success the government was losing serious revenues. Now the bars have opened but the social problems have increased two fold. The
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