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by plankers 1431 days ago
you can bet your bottom dollar there are some nerds in Sri Lanka who are very happy to own bitcoin right now. they'll be able to spend it as soon as the electricity comes back up.
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I think we can all agree that they'd be strictly better off with a digital dollar substitute like USDC than with Bitcoin, as of course they'd be down bad with Bitcoin.
Either lose all/most your money to inflation or risk not being able to spend money temporarily.