Not sure if this is joke or not: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-957375
Interesting if true. Imagine 5 years down the road and Zimbabwe using Bitcoin together with a bunch of other formerly impoverished nations. They all enjoy lively economy, stability and persecuted elsewhere bitcoiners relocate en masse to Africa. (as someone else "predicted" somewhere in other thread).
It would be a brilliant move, but maybe only on first sight.
Consider Lybia: Gadhafi wanted to make a Gold Dinar togetehr with other African countries. What did he and his country get for trying that? Nato (imf? world bank?) bombed them to shit, killed Gaddhafi, took the gold. Western media spun it as "protecting civilians", lol. I know, I know, take off the tinfoil hat. But it makes sense, does it not?