"Bitcoin fixes this" is a common phrase that is thrown around all over when people are talking about inflation, income inequality, business etc.
However, in Nigeria with our plethora of problems which we already know and I do not want to go into it. Can we brainstorm what and what can bitcoin really fix in Nigeria?
Some of our problems as a country
- Inflation
- Currency Devaluation
- Unemployment
- Poverty
- Dependence on Oil
- Poor Infrastructure
- Corruption
- Debt Burden
- Insecurity
- Foreign Exchange Shortages
- Agricultural Challenges
- Limited Access to Finance
- High Cost of Doing Business
- Brain Drain
- Environmental Degradation
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Bitcoin can actually solve some of the problems mentioned above. It can fix some of the problems we are facing in our country if the government makes it legal tender. Because the problems are connected to each other and solving one will solve a lot of the problems. For instance inflation is the one of the biggest problems we are facing in Nigeria now, prices of commodities are increasing day by day and our currency has been devalued, spending 1000naira now serve as spending 5naira, the higher the prices of commodities the lower the value of the currency, a lot of graduates are unemployed and poverty is killing a lot of people, our societies has become insecure, illegal act such as terrorists, bandit, kidnapping, and corruption has been generalizing due to unemployment.
So if bitcoin can reduce inflation to disinflation then our currency will be valuable again, if the government makes bitcoin legal tender then a lot of people will invest in bitcoin, they will trade with it and also hold it. if everyone is taking part in it including the unemployed people and earning a lot or little profit from it then poverty will also reduced that nobody will think of involving themselves in unlawful acts like corruption, kidnapping and so on, and our societies will be more secure than it is now.