He man! It' been a while since I last came your blog. Hope you enjoyed the break! Good to hear from you again :D

Venezuela actually has a pretty high smuggling rate. I am sure people are going to do what they need to in order to survive...........

About Ripple - my understanding is that ripple is going to succeed. Not because of the people inside of cryptosphere but because of people outside of it. People would see the collaborations of big names and banks with ripple and they would flock to it.......... I think people trust the banks too much. It doesn't matter if they shouldn't because eventually they will end up doing what they want to do.