The Anita Posch Show: A Bitcoin Only Podcast

par Anita Posch

Technologie (généralité)

Randy Brito: How People Are Using Bitcoin in Venezuela

27min (23 Mo) - 26 février 2020 Code copié Lien copié

Description de l'episode

Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. In 2012 he started publishing educational material about Bitcoin in Spanish and translated the interface of the Electrum Wallet. We are talking about the economical situation in Venezuela, how authorities extorted miners in 2015 and how people are using bitcoin today.
We talk about:

Started bitcoinvenezuela.com in 2012
Economical situation Venezuela
Spanish translator for electrum wallet 2012
Bitcoin is used to get money in and out of Venezuela
Most liquid currency in Venezuela in the moment
How people buy online in the US and get delivered to the border
~ 300.000 people use bitcoin
People fled Venezuela with their families with the help of bitcoin
2015 authorities extorted miners
Origin of the Petro
Seized mining devices are used by the government

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