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12 Questions: Meet Rommel Rojas (Venezuela)

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Rommel lives and works in Valencia, Venezuela. My name is Rommel Rojas, I live in Valencia, Venezuela. I got presence in all the social networks but I just use it for personal/photography stuff. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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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). The DEBNK proposal based on Dan Robinson’s Rainbow Network paper is the most interesting I’ve seen to date. Bitcoin also dominates in p2p markets (localbitcoins, Bisq, etc.)

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The four waves of crypto disruption: where are they today? 

Version One Ventures

But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. Given the stability of the US dollar, Bitcoin’s value proposition as a store of value may not be easy to grasp for the mainstream user in the U.S.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

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I had the opportunity to live in a number of foreign countries, Portugal when I was little, then Canada when I was 10 until college, and then I did my junior year in Spain and I worked in Venezuela, and I was able to study four languages, so Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Latin loved languages.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. He was responsible for the construction of 11 thermonuclear power plants throughout Venezuela that created 12,000 jobs.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. He was responsible for the construction of 11 thermonuclear power plants throughout Venezuela that created 12,000 jobs.

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The Fog of War: Three Themes Crypto Investors Should Pay Attention To Now

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Yesterday, Infura, a cloud -based node network for Ethereum, cut off access for wallets in Venezuela and quickly reversed course blaming the outage in code that was implemented to comply with sanctions against Russia. The decentralization that is at the core of cryptocurrency has come into sharper focus over the past weeks.

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