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by 7Figures2Commas 4269 days ago
You're half right: "tourists" are the one of the solutions, but you can't easily turn Bitcoin into food.

There's a booming trade in the port cities. Sailors bring dollars, which they trade for sex. That turns prostitutes into currency traders. Bloomberg had a story about this earlier this year.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/venezuela-prostitut...