Quote from: wxxyrqa on July 08, 2019, 06:16:21 PM

Quote from: Indamuck on July 08, 2019, 01:25:55 PM

Not sure if any of you are familiar with an online video game called Runescape but Venezuelans have flocked to that game in mass in order to farm video game gold and sell it for real money. They make much more farming gold, up to 10x the amount than they would make working a regular job in their economy.

If there is any opportunity to get easy money, then quite a large number of people show themselves in these actions. Who wants to work physically, If there is an opportunity to come up with something easier.

That's not easy money!
They stay glue to CRT monitor in unventilated rooms, doing the same task for hours after hours, getting up for only a few minutes until the day ends when their eyes can't hold anymore.

Yeah, earning money while playing sounds so nice but when you don't play for fun and when you start farming it's getting so damn annoying is worse than a regular job. I remember when I was playing Diablo 2 and I had to farm the bosses for keys to open the portal, it was so annoying to do the same thing over and over and over it took all the fun from the game.

Quote from: Sithara007 on July 09, 2019, 03:50:49 AM

Does anyone knows anything about Petro, the cryptocurrency that was created by the Maduro regime? I wanted to check the market cap and trade volumes, but there is no entry for this coin at the coinmarketcap website. There is a listing for PetroDollar (XPD), but I guess that one is a different altcoin. I am surprised because there was news that Petro is being actively used to evade sanctions.

And you believed that crap?
You really thought somebody will buy those coins and use it to trade with a bankrupt regime?
Venezuela can ask to be paid in anything they want, the problem is that the market is full of oil and there is low quality so they are actually the ones looking for buyers. And when this happens is the buyer that puts the conditions.

Besides, sanctions are not working this way, avoiding sanctions is not smuggling oil.
Sanctions target the opposite party, you can buy with drugs, gold, coins yuans, it doesn't matter once you deal somebody on that list you're also in trouble and you will face the consequences.

Maduro is simply trying to force citizens to buy that crap as it's a clever way to print money with affecting the bolivar (for a while)