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by zman0225 3133 days ago
very small correlation between situ in Zimbabwe and price of bitcoins. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets Either a pump from Korea or China.
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nrp 3133 days ago
Agreed that this seems fishy. Given that Zimbabwe no longer has a local currency, this seems to be USD->BTC on an exchange that happens to be in Zimbabwe. If you have the financial freedom to move your USD, it seems highly unlikely that you'd want to do so into BTC at a price much worse than at other exchanges.

Can anyone familiar with Zimbabwe shed some light on what's happening?

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zman0225 3133 days ago
Not just fishy -- fake news all the way. There's just not enough capital out of Zimbabwe to dictate a global market cap surge of 10-20 Billion (in the past 3 days)
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