In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, financial stability is hard to attain, to put it mildly. The extremist regime in change is unpredictable and can not be counted upon to maintain a currency safe from value fluctuations.
This is nothing new for the Afghans. But whereas in the past they tried to remedy that by just keeping a few dollars under the mattress, now more and more of them favor crypto, specifically Tether (USDT) for its direct correlation in value to the US Dollar.
This is a sea change in perception and clearly shows the expanding and growing power of crypto technologies, now reaching into some of the least developed and most conservative areas of the world.
References
Report: Afghans Use Crypto to Curb Taliban's Influence on Their Financial Well-Being
Terence Zimwara, Bitcoin.com, 25 April 2022