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This company is part of Executive’s Top 20 in science and technology. Read more stories of our special report on entrepreneurship in Lebanon, as they’re published here.   Yellow Distributed Technologies   David El Achkar Industry: ICT, financial services Project/product: Yellow Bitcoin payment processor Year of incorporation: 2014 Product launch: 2014 Employees: One Board of directors: Yes, four members Founders: David El Achkar, Ola Doudin, James Piechota    Bitcoin falls into the ranks of one of these new and emerging technologies that even those who have heard of it don’t know very much about, and only a niche clan of followers actually know how to use it. But David El Achkar, cofounder of Yellow Distributed Technologies, sees Bitcoin as “the future of financial transactions,” which he tells Executive could potentially become a replacement for the traditional financial foundation. Such a future oriented project reflects an entrepreneurial