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Re: The weekly trading volume of bitcoin in Venezuela reached $ 55 million.
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jseverson
on 17/04/2018, 08:09:46 UTC
That's pretty awesome. Venezuela is pretty unique because it's essentially an entire country demonstrating a Bitcoin use case. Their fiat is collapsing and Bitcoin is currently a perfectly legal and convenient way to escape it. It sucks that the country is in the shape that it's in, but it's good that people are finding a real-world use for Bitcoin I suppose.

They seem to be pushing Petro quite aggressively though, and them banning the competition in the future is quite a real possibility in my opinion. I guess we'll see though, as their government clearly believes that accepting crypto will help their economy improve.