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RE: Steem Bounty - What Is The Best Way To Buy Inflation Money Notes In Bulk (e.g. Venezuelan Bolivar, Zimbabwean Dollar)?
Uh... well, just so happens that family of mine visits Zimbabwe pretty often. I don't think you can actually get it in bulk anywhere here though. The money doesn't leave the country, I'm not sure it's even allowed.
I haven't asked but I expect that if you try to board a plane with luggage full of zimbabwean dollars, they may force you to exchange it? I've seen people with a bill or two, but not an entire stack or anything similar.
Curious though, what do you need it for? Want to swim in money? :)
Hahahah, that would be cool though! But no, I want to use it as a conversation starter about crypto and the need for decentralized money :-)
I might indeed be the case that they would not allow the money to leave the country in bulk. I've managed to buy a few notes on Marktplaats, but that is it. Couldn't find bulk.
Do you happen to know how expensive shipping gets from Zimbabwe? From experience I know that for instance from South-East Asia it is pretty cheap, don't know about Zimbabwe.
I am not 100% certain but I believe shipping to/from Zimbabwe is expensive. The people I know who travel there once complained to me about how they sent some brochures there (or received from there) and they had to pay 30-40$ in shipping or so.
There's not a lot of freight between there and here, like with S-E Asia, so they pretty much have to make the way down specifically for that one package (almost, anyway) which makes it expensive
if you want to make a point about money and devaluation you should look if you can see if you can find some old german marks or polish zlotys. Otherwise it's easy to disregard inflation as something that happens far away, in crappy countries. And I'm sure there's some german bills floating around in the netherlands
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