The internet cost is huge for Zimbabwe and they are almost paying $75 for 1 GB data throughout their country.
This means, if I am an individual who wish to use any desktop wallet for bitcoin which is usually 200-500 MB in size, I would end up paying $40 bucks just to download the wallet!
That's a myth and it was because BBC used an already out od date exchange rate which nobody cared about but stayed there on official sites.
https://zimfact.org/does-1gig-of-data-cost-us75-in-zimbabwe-as-claimed-by-the-bbc/Besides, electrum is just 40MB and is designed exactly to be lightweight, you won't be reaching that 1GB in years you would exceed that way faster by browsing WoT or looking at cat pics, and when I say faster I mean a few days.
There is alot of benefit for approval of bitcoin in Zimbabwe and one is that those Zimbabweans working out of the shores of there country can transfer money home through bitcoin and that can rejuvenate their economy through investment and hodling naturally may increase individual earnings and the currency can get back in value.
What would be the difference between adopting USD or
BTC for the average citizen?
First, they would have to get those
BTC , which is the same thing s trying to get USD with a failed currency and will do exactly the same damage to the economy, everyone will rush to sell Zimbabwe currency and buy coins, destroying the peg even more as obviously nobody wants their currency. And after that, where will the money and investment come from magically? In order for the population to make a profit on their bitcoin purchase, they would have to sell it to others at a higher price, you see the vicious circle here?
Bitcoin is money, you need money in order to get money, in order to invest you need to let that money go, it's not something magical, oh we bought 100 BTC our economy will thrive.
Satoshi didn't create Bitcoin to rejuvenate the industry or make some holders rich and never pretend to be a magical cure for everything.
Bitcoin is perfect at transferring value without intermediaries, but in order to do that, you need to have that value in the first place.