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carlmr on July 24, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1M Percent

Safeguard? Only if you have something like Gold or something to barter with.

Purchases? You need to barter.

dajohnson89 on July 24, 2018 [–]

i'm curious how common crypto I over there

ingenieros on July 24, 2018 | | [–]

Maduro's government launched its own cryptocurrency supposedly backed by Venezuela's oil reserves. Google: "petro" if you want to have a good laugh.

ciupicri on July 24, 2018 | | | [–]

Maduro launched a crypto currency called petro.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/19/venezuelas-new...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-venezue...

Max_Mustermann on July 24, 2018 | | [–]

Some interesting responses from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/vzla/comments/911mu4/do_venezuelans...

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