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Also people in countries facing hyperinflation or corrupt banking system (Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Turkey, Lebanon etc ) might be forced to run their own crypto piggy banking infrastructure, as inconvenient it might be.


> Also people in countries facing hyperinflation ... might be forced to

use the currency that is as volatile as their own? Why?


...or they just do what was always historically done and use a neighbour's stable currency, or simply USD or EUR.

Switching from an inflationary currency to a stable one is already tough, switching to a volatile deflationary currency would be a nightmare.


the problem is when shtf, USD and EUR are the first to be controlled by the government and banks.




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