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RE: Venezuela to create Oil-back National Cryptocurrency "the Petro"
I wanted to help my family in Venezuela but being in the USA I read I could get in trouble for helping a sanctioned country. Isn't that f'd up? Not sure how true this is.
Hello @bitfiend, my friend, you are misunderstanding thinking that you can't help your family due to those sanctions, you'll have trouble just if you make any business or transaction or contract with anyone on the blacklist that are specified by the government of the USA, that sanctions are just for that people. You must not be afraid to help your family or friends, that's not a crime.
Thanks for your reassurance, I understand now.
Really fucked up in case this was true! If you want to help your family you could encourage them to come to Steem, you transfer them SBD or Steem and they could trade them easily using a service. Don't know if you've noticed but there are services here in Steemit where people can change Steem to VEF
After doing some digging, most of my family doesnt own a computer, one of them just had a phone die and finding a replacement is next to impossible. So how would I get them connected? There is a huge gap of communication because even access to wifi is hard to come by. Maybe you can run this by your group and get ideas? Is there a discord? They are pretty computer illiterate so probably not something they'd want to do. All the more reason to get the petro going.