Autor
Alberto C. Toppin
Graduado de Periodismo en la Universidad de La Habana en 2017. Editor web en Juventud Técnica (2017-2019) y reportero en YucaByte (2018-2020). Ha colaborado también con OnCuba, El Estornudo y Progreso Semanal.
Even though bitcoin and its counterparts allow trade with the rest of the world while avoiding the sanctions of the U.S. embargo, the adoption of these forms of payment is not massive in Cuba.
In 2022, there are still people who doubt the purchasing power of cryptocurrency for many reasons, including the belief that the crypto world must be linked to theft.
While these blocks may seem random at first glance (some users weren’t blocked, even when they recently updated the mobile operating system), there were patterns that make you think that the affected were phones that had been activated in Cuba.
The Cuban government undertook its Tarea Ordenamiento to solve age-old problems within the national economy, as well as increase citizens’ purchasing power, revalue the Cuban peso as the official currency by eliminating the Convertible peso and establishing a single exchange rate for Cuban pesos against foreign currencies. Months later, none of these objectives have been met.
The first time Hansel Bonilla tried Palma beer, he found it to be more bitter than he had expected. The drink’s design is so similar to Cristal beer that he thought that he was drinking the Cuban beer that is exported to European countries under the name Palma Cristal. However, he was drinking a beer […]
The main reason why there are still some users on CubaMessenger and Sijú was their popularity reached when there was no access to Internet via mobile data in Cuba. The other one is the price.
Autores
Alberto C. Toppin
Graduado de Periodismo en la Universidad de La Habana en 2017. Editor web en Juventud Técnica (2017-2019) y reportero en YucaByte (2018-2020). Ha colaborado también con OnCuba, El Estornudo y Progreso Semanal.
Even though bitcoin and its counterparts allow trade with the rest of the world while avoiding the sanctions of the U.S. embargo, the adoption of these forms of payment is not massive in Cuba.
The Cuban government undertook its Tarea Ordenamiento to solve age-old problems within the national economy, as well as increase citizens’ purchasing power, revalue the Cuban peso as the official currency by eliminating the Convertible peso and establishing a single exchange rate for Cuban pesos against foreign currencies. Months later, none of these objectives have been met.
In 2022, there are still people who doubt the purchasing power of cryptocurrency for many reasons, including the belief that the crypto world must be linked to theft.
The first time Hansel Bonilla tried Palma beer, he found it to be more bitter than he had expected. The drink’s design is so similar to Cristal beer that he thought that he was drinking the Cuban beer that is exported to European countries under the name Palma Cristal. However, he was drinking a beer […]
While these blocks may seem random at first glance (some users weren’t blocked, even when they recently updated the mobile operating system), there were patterns that make you think that the affected were phones that had been activated in Cuba.
The main reason why there are still some users on CubaMessenger and Sijú was their popularity reached when there was no access to Internet via mobile data in Cuba. The other one is the price.