Greetings from Venezuela, the land of one of the most chaotic economies in the world.
I've managed to keep my family afloat by doing freelance jobs on the internet paid in dollars, and I've come to the point where I can actually start saving some money, mainly because I want to create a fund to eventually leave the country with my family.
Here's the deal... how should I save that money?. I'm paid using online wallet systems (mainly Paypal and Skrill), and I've used bitcoin mainly to convert what I earn to the local currency (bolivar, VEF) by going paypal/skrill - bitcoin - VEF, but never actually kept it there.
Creating an account in dollars isn't easy at all, there's a strict foreign currency control in Venezuela, so they put waaay to many bureaucratic blocks on creating one, and with a yearly inflation of over 1000% with everything pointing to it getting worse as time goes by, saving in VEF would be like throwing the money away.
So basically that leaves me with using paypal and skrill to keep the money, or bitcoin (which I don't have any real experience with), but I know they're generally frowned upon against a real bank account. My general idea was to keep a little money on each just in case (some in paypal, some in skrill, some in bitcoin and so on), but I'd really like some advice at what could I do.
Submitted March 06, 2017 at 07:18AM by Namocol http://ift.tt/2lSl3nU
