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by crdoconnor 4269 days ago
Yeah, this. I would much preferred to have taken in bitcoin.

Either you use the ATM and everything is 3x as expensive as it should be or you carry around a minimum of $1000 on your person in one of the most violent countries in the world.

$300 of my USD stash got stolen by the Venezuelan army guard while strip searching me on the border with Colombia.