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Re:Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa by dabrowski on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:54AM (#7290294)
"Zimbabwe suffered from the second worst hyperinflation on record; it reached an absurd 231,000,000% in the summer of 2008. That means that the price of goods doubled every 25 hours."

Unless the hyperinflation lasted only about 3 weeks, then that statement is obviously wrong. 2^21 * 100 = 209,715,200

Re:Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa by shawabawa3 on Monday February 24, 2014 @07:10AM (#7290354)
Yep, should be every 35 hours.

I think they got a bit confused - in Aug 2008 the inflation was up to 471,000,000,000%, which is roughly doubling every 25 hours