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BTC + DeFi = FTW

Version One Ventures

which are the primary means of trading in countries like Venezuela (see this excellent study of bitcoin as a censorship resistant bridge currency). Ethereum meanwhile attempts to engineer scarcity via a “ minimum necessary issuance ” policy. And daily BTC volume has been at least 2-5x that of ETH over the last month (source: Messari ).

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I originally came from Argentina, and lived in Brazil and Venezuela before moving to the US. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. .” We were also excited at the chance to learn something new, get out of our comfort zones, and take complete ownership of something we truly believed in. 12) We Wanted to Help.

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Trump is everyone's problem now.

This is going to be BIG.

How about Venezuela funds from 1998? Get ready to have to start paying your software engineers even more so they can afford to live. That probably won't have a positive effect on venture capital returns. I mean, think about it--how well do you think those late 1930's German venture capital vintages did?