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Fighting for Freedom in Venezuela: How Crypto Helped Héctor’s Family Buy Food

“We were almost running out of food some days ago...With the 3 NANO (around $8 USD) we were able to buy food for the whole week."

Insight From a Place of Crisis: Bitcoin as an Agent of Change

LTB podcast hosts Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan speak with Christian Garcia about the crucial role of cryptocurrencies in Venezuela.

Venezuela Offers India Discounted Oil to Boost Petro Confidence

The IMF predicts that, by the end of year, Venezuela will have experienced a GDP decline of nearly 50 percent since 2013.

Week in Review for February 23, 2018: Sidechains, Stings and Venezuela

The best of Bitcoin Magazine's cryptocurrency and blockchain stories from the week.

Venezuela’s On-and-Off Love Affair With Cryptocurrency Mining: It’s Complicated

2017 was a particularly confusing and uneasy year to mine cryptocurrency in Venezuela. 2018 is not much better.

Venezuela Launches “Petros” Cryptocurrency Amid Growing Skepticism

With crushing debt and a starving population, the Maduro government in Venezuela is launching what it says is the world's first sovereign cryptocurrency.The cryptocurrency...

Blockchain’s Greatest Impact Will Be in Developing Countries, Says UPenn Lecturer

Most of the attention, flurry and investment around blockchain technology is in the West, where people are investing in cryptocurrencies and focused on a...

“Bitcoin Laundering” Study: Where Do Criminals Turn to Mask Illicit Cryptoassets?

A recent study (PDF) from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and blockchain analytics company Elliptic explored the...

Venezuela Seems to Be Cracking Down on Bitcoin

It appears that the Venezuelan authorities have had enough of Bitcoin. Over the past two weeks, police in the Latin American country arrested eight...

Venezuela’s Inflation to Reach 1,600% in 2017, Spurring Demand for Bitcoin

The weakening economy of Venezuela under the regime of President Nicolas Maduro is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to reach a consumer-price inflation...
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