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Interview location: New YorkInterview date: Monday 13th May, 2019Company: Open Money InitiationRole: Co-Founders - Jill Carlson, Alejandro Machado & Jamaal Montasser
Venezuela is often promoted as an ideal use case for Bitcoin, a deflationary currency in a country suffering hyperinflation. Despite the examples of people mining Bitcoin or using Bitcoin to hold value, real adoption is complicated.
In Venezuela, people are using a range of currencies including the Dollar, the Peso and Bitcoin, but there are times when the Bolivar must be used, even though getting hold of the currency can be difficult.
The Open Money Initiative is a non-profit organisation whose motivation is believing that access to a free and open financial system is a human right. Their design-led approach is to understand the human experiences of survival in Venezuela and to support and inspire their partners to develop products and services that help people.
In this interview, I talk with the team from OMI about their work, their design-led approach to research, the reality of money within Venezuela, and how Bitcoin can help.
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Previous WBD Venezuela shows
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Bitcoin Venezuela (Randy Brito)
ZCash and Venezuela
Mining in Venezuela
Local Bitcoins in Venezuela
Other relevant WBD podcasts:
WBD071: Update on the Venezuelan Political Crisis
WBD021: Token Economics and Raising Crypto Capital with Jill Carlson
WBD019: How Venezuelans are Using Bitcoin to Counter the Effects of Hyperinflation with Alejandro Machado
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