firekvz

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by firekvz 6y ago
Venezuelan here, to scape from inflation I buy USD. I dont need anything else other than that green bill or a zelle transfer. Bitcoin is pretty much useless in venezuela and the few people who uses it, also uses it to buy "cheaper&quot
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by firekvz 6y ago
I will the next time.
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by firekvz 6y ago
Airbnb was cool when it was a place to share with hosts and rent a bed and a breakfast during my trips, allowing me to save some money and meeting some cool people. now it’s just a boring business of terrible managed apartments with really
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by firekvz 6y ago
Not depressed myself but like 90% of the people I know is depressed, and it has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me, I live in a country with a huge economic crisis that have led people to the most horrible suffering you can imagine wit
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by firekvz 6y ago
Talking about over-compliance, you should check out Transferwise blocking access to every venezuelan in their system + IP block the access of every venezuelan IP [1], just cause sanctions against few individuals [2]. And then you have to re
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by firekvz 6y ago
CCC owners are clearly trying to drive people today to click their affiliate links on prime day :)
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by firekvz 6y ago
Venezuela, 3rd world country, whole energy system is collapsed
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by firekvz 6y ago
Hope you guys had some tesla calls :p
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by firekvz 6y ago
I have 4-5 hours outages every day, I use 2 APC ups to keep my modem and router up, while I still work with my laptop. It works perfectly for me, these APC devices have given me at the very least 1500 hours of continuos internet access whe
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by firekvz 6y ago
any other reads like this? maybe a bigger one, like connecting a whole building or connecting to an ISP?
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by firekvz 6y ago
Whole MS 365 suite is free for schools, even the windows licenses are free, so... What are you talking about?
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by firekvz 6y ago
My biggest bet is that they only wanted to close zelle for venezuelans in venezuela, so under that concept the mailing adreess is the fist thing to look at, next in list should be IP (already avoided by venezuelans using US services) and ne
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by firekvz 6y ago
Initial post was about POS in here not acepting USD cards, i showed they do. Is cool that they do it, as it allows more payment methods to then and allows me to spend my USD, the more formal the business is, the more it will avoid using inf
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by firekvz 6y ago
And thats cool, Venezuelan merchants still need the bolivars, they pay taxes, they pay rent, they pay salaries, they pay to their providers, all of that is done in VES, also, they get the same exact rate as the unnoficial one.
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by firekvz 6y ago
You get BCV dollar which is pretty much the same as dolartoday, last week was even a better rate.
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by firekvz 6y ago
Merchants receive VES, processing fee are exactly the same as processing a VES card. Bolivars are not worthless when you getting the full exchange value of it, they render worhtless when you put them in a savings account for 1 full year, at
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by firekvz 6y ago
Getting data from google is not gonna help you as there is barely official info, since the gov hides those numbers, we dont have propper census data or emigration data Venezuela population is calculated to be 24 millions at the moment, with
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by firekvz 6y ago
fake, USD cards work perfectly in venezuela, venezuela uses normal mastercard and visa networks, using an USD card in venezuela is exactly the same as using it in brazil or itali or anywhere else. I use my AMEX, BoFA VISA, citi MC, with abs
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by firekvz 6y ago
This article is all written on the decision from Wells Fargo to stop offering zelle to accounts with a Venezuelan mailing adress. The decision from wells fargo seems reasonable, most of the Venezuelans (including me) were using zelle for co
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by firekvz 7y ago
They ran away, they didn't rescue them. Kinda shows that they might be on blame Ps: Venezuelan here and I hate my gov but this looks really shaddy
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by firekvz 7y ago
An online tournament of FIFA 20 (soccer game by EA Sports) just finished between the 20 teams from "la liga", spanish league.. Each team sent their best player and it was streamed at twitch.tv At some point I think it had over 50
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by firekvz 7y ago
Yeah I also got a really weird password that needs shift and characters way to distant from the others to believe it's comming from a toddler Guessing he's using 2 hands most likely you will get characters around the 1st one he p
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by firekvz 7y ago
Transferwise has also announced today via email that the will not longer offer their services. https://i.redd.it/jxqfc4c1z4r31.png
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by firekvz 7y ago
yes, to the "goverment of venezuela", not to civilians, also it has a license specific to avoid what is happening: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/... the date of both do
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Ask HN: Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?
68 points by firekvz 7y ago|29 comments
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by firekvz 7y ago
Was in russia last year, every subway station/public place had scanners, i just saw thousands of ppl go through them and never ever beep... maybe is just something to scare people?
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by firekvz 7y ago
Of course, where else they gonna get money from
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by firekvz 7y ago
Just shower after you do your business, you can imagine the rest.
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by firekvz 7y ago
Funny story, as a Venezuelan and having toilet paper shortages I was forced to go water and soap. Never comming back, not even with all the toilet paper in the world The feeling is shared with alot of friends (we joke about this as a way to
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by firekvz 7y ago
Wouldn't this just be the gov giving free money to the banks so they can pay?

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