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by glenvdb 1716 days ago
Alex Gladstein has written about this at length.

He works for the Human Rights Foundation and advocates Bitcoin for its humanitarian use cases. He has spoken to many people in these types of countries to get their take on it. See for yourself...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein

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I live in one of those countries. Nobody will accept my currency in exchange for bitcoin. I can't send money offshore to buy bitcoin.

I mean, just ask the Chinese how easy it is to get bitcoin today. The billionaires, millionaires, and political elite can get their hands on bitcoin sure no matter where in the world they are, but not the common man (the actual oppressed in those regimes).

Unlike Alex, I don't have a conflict of interest.