| Venezuelan here. This won't work. Our problems go way beyond having a way to store our wealth It's literally impossible to do bitcoin transactions in normal circunstances because this is not San Francisco and your regular store doesn't even have internet access, we have one of the worts internet acess in the world [1]. Then there is the problem created by the violence/crime[2]. I myself have to leave my phone at home everytime I go out, there is no way to take public transportation regulary without suffering a robery, it's just so common that it became a meme within Venezuelans. There has been so many cases where people has been killed over the most stupid and trivial things to the point that if you google from venezuela "lo mataron por ______" (Murdered because ____) you get pages and pages of crazy reasons of why venezuelans have killed other venezuelans. Fast examples: Murdered for playing carnival (throwing water ballons to other ppl during carnival, venezuelan tradition) https://www.el-carabobeno.com/lo-mataron-de-un-disparo-por-j... Murdered to steal 60$ he had on his pocket: http://runrun.es/nacional/337760/monitordevictimas-mataron-a... So now imagine someone figures out that I have bitcoins and that they have a value of lets say 300$. There is no fucking way I will risk my life that way. So in order to use bitcoin in Venezuela i have to do this: 1. Risk my life by having to pull my phone or using my phone outside. 2. Risk my life by letting others know that I own/hold bitcoin. The merchant has to: 1. Fight all the problems to be able to accept it (electricity problems, internet access). 2. Hope that someone doesnt just come into your store and steal your hardware. 3. Gov crazy actions. ------ [1] http://www.speedtest.net/global-index/venezuela [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela |