You're half right: "tourists" are the one of the solutions, but you can't easily turn Bitcoin into food. There's a booming trade in the port cities. Sailors br

You're half right: "tourists" are the one of the solutions, but you can't easily turn Bitcoin into food. There's a booming trade in the port cities. Sailors bring dollars, which they trade for sex. That turns prostitutes into currency traders. Bloomberg had a story about this earlier this year. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/venezuela-prostitutes-earn-more-selling-dollars-than-sex.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-09/venezuela-prostitut...