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How do you get information on these spreads? Are people who accept illicit trades openly advertising their services or maybe even rates? Or is this more undergr
by roel_v 14y ago
How do you get information on these spreads? Are people who accept illicit trades openly advertising their services or maybe even rates? Or is this more underground like moonshine or drug trade, and do you need to be 'on the inside' to have access to these services? That last situation would seriously hamper liquidity and dampen the 'real-time' aspect tremendously, no?
- zfran 14y agoOnline newspapers post the rates daily. Buying from the black master is just a matter of heading downtown and looking for people offering exchange in the streets. It's accessible for anyone.
- rafaelm 14y agoIn Venezuela, it's illegal to even offer dollars at the black market rate. But you can even go to a public square in front of the Congress and find people selling and buying dollars in the street. The government even went as far to block websites that published the black market rate online. You can imagine how effective that was. These kind of controls only generate corruption in the end. Its widely known that if you are willing to pay enough and know the right people in the government, you can get dollars assigned at the official rate for anything you want.
- wslh 14y agoPeople in the streets buy/cell. They are called "arbolitos" (little trees) For big sums it is not that hard to find a "cueva" (cave)
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