As Venezuela's
national currency loses value at a catastrophic rate, thousands have begun turning to the world of cryptocurrency to salvage what little value remains from their increasingly worthless bolivars.
Not exact matches
Iran's government has fixed the exchange rate of the
national currency, after it
lost 20 % against the dollar in two weeks.
It has also partnered with a Venezuelan - based digital
currency exchange to help boost its use as an everyday
currency — while Venezuela's
national currency continues to
lose value.
State departments are concerned about the country's
national currency, the tenge, and whether it could
lose stability if customers regularly choose to trade it in for crypto.
Venezuela is currently facing hyperinflation of more than 4,000 percent in the last year, with the
national currency, the Bolizar, having
lost around 96 percent of its value.
This is due to a large population of a given country
losing faith in their
national currency, trading in FIAT — in many cases, their entire savings — into a cryptocurrency.
are prime examples of countries whose population has
lost faith in their federal governments and their
national currency.