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When Hyperinflation Rhymes With Chaos - The Story of Zimbabwe With Inflation of 231,000,000% in 2008

Robert Mugabe's land reform ruined a country that was once the breadbasket of southern Africa.

Sylvain Saurel
Sep 08, 2022
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This article of a special kind is not directly related to Bitcoin at first glance, but it is here to show you the dangers of hyperinflation, and why monetary creation cannot be in the hands of the State, which will always abuse this power. The goal here is to understand why hard money like Bitcoin is a necessity to avoid this in the world of the future.

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