Re:A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin
by jerrymiller on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:13AM
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Are you saying this has helped people in Venezuela?
Re:A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Bitcoin
by notahacker on Saturday February 13, 2021 @10:28AM
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Not unless they had significant debts or tax bills denominated in increasingly worthless Bolivar, or the newly printed Bolivar were being funnelled to them, no.
(Obviously debtors did not continue to be helped either, as businesses and lenders adjusted repayment terms accordingly, including a strong preference for receiving USD in untaxed offshore accounts, or just gave up altogether after incompetent monetary policy had ruined them.)
Competently run central banks, unlike incompetently run central banks or crypto mining algorithms, intervene to reduce the money in circulation when its purchasing power falls faster than they're comfortable with.