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Re:Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation by SadWebDeveloper on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:03PM (#16396228)
You forget to add A and B scenarios to your conclusions....

A) Criminals/Bitcoins-enthusiasts/elites leave the country for the next unregulated paradise.

B) Criminals/Bitcoins-enthusiasts/elites overthrown the government due to strict policies regarding free trade.

The government can't enforce a laws by itself it needs his citizens to abide by those rules.

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Re:Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation by _Codemonkeyism on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:06PM (#16396266)
The Venezuelan government killed [1] 163 people who believed in scenario B.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Venezuelan_protests

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Re:Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation by SadWebDeveloper on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:30PM (#16396548)
American Revolutionary War death toll 25,000 people who believed in scenario B
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Re:Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation by MadSudaca on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:16PM (#16396396)
Venezuelan citizens are not armed as many in the US.
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Re:Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation by kylell on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:16PM (#16396393)
The Venezuelan government days are numbered
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