{"id":13315,"date":"2018-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/2018\/10\/04\/this-is-where-cryptocurrencies-are-actually-making-a-difference-in-the-world-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:36:39","slug":"difference-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.dash.org\/news\/difference-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"This is where cryptocurrencies are actually making a difference in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
Strolling the aisles, it didn\u2019t take Eugenia Alcal\u00e1 long to pick out her weekly grocery items: rice, beans, bread and meat. That\u2019s about all that\u2019s available in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Once she reached the cashier, it would be another 40 minutes before she could leave the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday the account was 200 million [bolivars], but the point of sale only permitted 20 million bolivars per transaction,\u201d Alcal\u00e1 said. \u201cSo I had to pass the debit card 10 times. Each time it takes up to five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Strolling the aisles, it didn\u2019t take Eugenia Alcal\u00e1 long to pick out her weekly grocery items: rice, beans, bread and meat. That\u2019s about all that\u2019s available in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n