Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he/she might be deserving of the Nobel Prize in economics for inventing Bitcoin (BTC), the nascent digital coin that is currently rescuing crypto-adopting Venezuelans from the abyss.

Fiat cash has long been problematic because of their unsustainable, long-term value: Central banks and governments can simply turn on the printing press to print notes that are not backed by gold or anything of fungible value. In Venezuela, which has a population of 32 million, the bolivar has become unusable and the local economy has arrived at a grinding halt: Suppliers have stopped producing; workers have stopped working; and grocery shelves are empty because nobody can get paid given that the medium of exchange (bolivar) has lost all value.  Read more...