Do you live in Zimbabwe?
Can you use btc to buy something?
Do you have btc ATMs or exchange offices where you can exchange btc to fiat?
What about taxes?
It will be great if your local people can directly spend btc instead of waiting to get fiat money.

i think the point of what OP says is to remind others that bitcoin is more about financial sovereignty and taking that control back in your own hands.
it is all a beginning, you can't expect wide usage of bitcoin as payments (to buy something) this early on. but it is happening everywhere.

Not only Zimbabwe there are many more countries going through the sam problem. Surely Bitcoin means freedom from centralized control and Banks.

But, I do not understand how are you relating Bitcoin to financial freedom. As per my understanding you have to convert Bitcoin to fiat, you are still depending on Fiat.

It is a crisis situation out there, do not make a mockery of it. They need Fiat to survive, hospitals and food store there do not accept Bitcoin but Fiat.

That's no imagination but a harsh reality to India as well! Recently an old bank known as "PMC Bank" failed due to corrupted lending and high percentage of NPA. The central bank immediately banned the people from withdrawing their deposits and given them a daily limit. My housing society is one of the victims and they are still hoping to withdraw their deposits.


Correct! But that is far from being a reality! We can only realize the true potential of cryptos knly if it is accepted by the stores of our country. If you don't have any way to use cryptos in your country to buy goods and services, the only way left is to trade cryptos for cash and then use it! But I understand and support your point! It is becoming more valid during the current economic slowdown.

I would not be happy if they were the banks limiting withdrawal of money to me, because it is my money and my right to take whatever, if indeed it happened in my country would be very terrible plus bitcoin users here would be called unlawful if using bitcoin as a tool payment, so of course it will kill me slowly, maybe I go to escape to a country that is free to use bitcoin as a means of payment

There's no freedom in using their money, no wonder their economy suffers as it is not run by a good government.
Compared to BTC, we can say we are having a total freedom here as we don't even need an ATM to spend it, though there's a limited supply on BTC only but we never see people complaining on shortage.

This country should adopt with crypto and leave their fiat, they might grow this way,

some bitcoiners are lucky when there is an economic crisis like in Zimbabwe but it depends on the country where they live, I'm sure you also can't make anything for example now you live in Zimbabwe with events happening there even though you have some bitcoin of course you can't shop or transact with your bitcoin there because now in Zimbabwe as far as we can see they haven't received crypto payments at their stores.

The Zimbabwean economy has been in shambles for a long time now and the only thing that this so called new currency issuance is going to do is to make sure that they don't use a truckload of money just to buy a few things. They are just redominating their currency that's all but they should have made sure that they had more in circulation to prevent the shortage.

This is just another example of the shortcomings of fiat controlled by central entities. You literally can't get the value of your money. I'm sure that Zimbabwean people work hard for that money and still they can't use it? That's a flawed economy and it will collapse sooner or later. The inflation is ridiculously high. IMO the countries in this kind of situations need to definitely change their economy to cryptocurrencies because fiat is not viable anymore. I mean come on.. you can't withdraw 5 bucks worth of currency?! How you're gonna live ?! lol By getting back to bartering, here's my goat - give me some bread haha

FIAT is crap but it is not the main problem of Zimbabwe or countries like it. The main problem is lack of natural resources, being abused by the Westerners for years as a colony, being physically away from the civilization, diseases, simply not wanting get smarter, not giving a fuck anyway, etc etc... When all these shit bad possibilities happen at the same time and combine it with FIAT, you get Zimbabwe.

Moving away from FIAT only is not going to solve shit in Zimbabwe.