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A Venezuelan Bitcoin Miner on Why He Had To Flee

05.22.2018 - By BloombergPlay

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Venezuela's spiraling economic crisis has forced many citizens to seek new ways of making money. This week on Decrypted, Bloomberg's Camila Russo and Brad Stone hear from one businessman who made the decision to quietly start mining bitcoin -- a smart move until it attracted the attention of the police. Authorities raided his office, and he says, tried to extort him -- forcing him to flee the country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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