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Blockchain May Soon Be Helping Puerto Rico Keep the Lights on

  • Australian blockchain firm seeks to deploy exchange on island
  • Goal is to stop an exodus of workers from Puerto Rico
Diesel-fueled power generator unloaded in Puerto Rico on Oct. 13.
Diesel-fueled power generator unloaded in Puerto Rico on Oct. 13.Source: APR Energy
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Solar panels. Batteries. Emergency fossil fuel-fired generators. They’ve all been deployed across Puerto Rico to help get the lights back on in the months following devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Now it’s blockchain’s turn.