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by knorker 1885 days ago
Oh yeah, I saw some documentary about bitcoin in Africa. It was so sad. This woman standing in basically a muddy hut, stirring some soup, and saying how she put everything into bitcoin because they say it always goes up. She had no idea what it is.

Someone basically tricked her into buying lottery tickets. (who knows, maybe it'll work out just fine)

That's not even close to "using bitcoin". To a rounding error nobody is actually using bitcoin (even less the other cryptocurrencies, since it's even more rare to be able to), except to commit crimes.

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Yeah, she should kept her savings in Zimbabwe Dollars. Those are only inflating at 500%+ per year.