Volatility, hyperinflation and uncertainty: How everyday Venezuelans are usin...
Customers of stablecoin payment app Reserve express their dependency on technology for everyday transactions. Last month, Cointelegraph interviewed Reserve CEO Nevin Freeman and the payment decentralized application’s community manager Yens Michiels about the company’s mission to provide access to stable currencies. More recently, Cointelegraph spoke to a couple of users based out of Venezuela and Colombia who shared their positive experiences with Reserve. Reserve is a tool to exchange fiat currency like Venezuelan bolivares for U.S. dollars via the Reserve (RSV) stablecoin. From everyday....
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A failing Venezuelan government that has left the country deep in the trenches of economic ruin has now published an article through a state-owned media outlet that sums up bitcoin as a currency used by criminals and terrorist groups who, it deems, are the “main activists and advocates [of] bitcoin.” In a time of hyperinflation and a failed economy, the country’s minimum wage alone puts Venezuelan citizens beyond poverty. A high unemployment rate and hyper-inflated food prices are among the most critical concerns faced by Venezuelans. Understandably, citizens have been....
The weakening bolivar and strict capital controls have forced Venezuelans to use bitcoin in their everyday life. Bitcoin has already been recognized as the best performing currency of 2016. The digital currency’s price has been exhibiting a positive trend over the year. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin makes it immune to conventional market forces, which in turn makes it the best alternative currency in the world. This very feature of Bitcoin is now coming handy to countless Venezuelans who are currently going through the worst economic phase in the country’s history. The problem....
Venezuela’s national currency Bolivar Fuerte is rapidly losing value amidst hyperinflation. The official FX value of the Venezuelan bolivar is $1 to 9.95 VEF but in actuality, in the country’s black market, local residents are paying around 5,000 VEF for $1. To avoid the devaluation of bolivar and acquire necessary daily goods, Venezuelans have started to rely on Bitcoin to finance their expenditures. By local exchange rates, 100 bolivar is equivalent to $0.02. The country’s highest denomination banknote was 100 bolivar, but the government demonetized it earlier this week. As a result, the....
The number of Venezuelan bitcoin users has doubled and the trading volumes of Venezuelanbitcoin exchanges have increased substantially since 2014. A spokesman of bitcoin Venezuela told Panampost: The country’s largest bitcoin advocacy organization stated that a significantly large portion of bitcoin buyers hold the digital currency, and they are not worried about its volatility. Instead, some are very optimistic on the value of bitcoin, and they are hoping to see a short-term increase over the next few months. “The price [of bitcoin] never fluctuates at the same rate as the devaluation of....
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has warned that hyperinflation will soon happen in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” he predicted. Many people disagreed with him, however.
US Will Soon Experience Hyperinflation, Says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
The CEO of Twitter and Square Inc., Jack Dorsey, tweeted a warning about hyperinflation in the U.S. Friday. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” he wrote.
Comments flooded his tweet. At the time....