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will_pseudonym | 5 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/venezuela...

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p_l|5 years ago

In Venezuela, BTC is heavily restricted towards friends of the regime, for whom it serves similar experience as having hoards of "hard foreign currency" did in USSR...

lottin|5 years ago

They say nobody uses it but a "tiny minority". So basically what we already knew, BTC adoption as a currency is anecdotal even in those dysfunctional places where according to its proponents it's particularly suited for.