Thank you because your donations literally helped me put food on the table. Today I bought 4.5 kg of chicken, which is enough for a couple of weeks, and I want to use this purchase to show you the huge difference in exchange rates between dollars and bolivars in Venezuela.
Here's where I went to pick up the 4.5 kg package of chicken:
This chicken is delivered to my house for free because I buy it from a restaurant supplier, and the price is even better than at the supermarkets. I found out about this company because they hired me for a photography job time ago.
This is the receipt they gave me:
$5.80 per kilo for a total of $26.60 for 4.60 kg.
This $26.60 is charged at the official exchange rate of the Bank of Venezuela, which today would be:
So, if we multiply 26.60 x 554.42, the result would be that I have to pay 14,747 bolivars (Venezuelan currency).
So far, so good, but this is where it all starts.
In Venezuela, there are no official exchange houses where people can freely buy or sell dollars. Currently, we can't even buy them from the bank, so we have to resort to the street market, buying or selling dollars from other people who need them and who set whatever price they want... BUT
There is an alternative, and in fact, it's widely used. Here in Venezuela, many people use the Binance platform to exchange bolivars for USDT and escape inflation. Furthermore, with those USDT, they can pay raw material suppliers abroad or wherever they need it, since they can basically exchange USDT for any other fiat currency they need.
BUT the price difference between the Venezuelan bank dollar and USDT is incredible!
Here's the exchange rate on Binance today:
742 Bs per USDT
There's a difference of between 25% and 34%, and believe me, companies factor that difference in by raising the prices of all their products to avoid bankruptcy (this is why it's more expensive to live in Venezuela than in any other Latin American country).
Okay... but something else happens too. For example, in this case, you sent me satoshis, which can be converted to USDT and exchanged for Venezuelan currency to pay for this chicken. In this case, to pay the $26.60 bill, I only had to sell 19.87 USDT.
And all of this, which sounds crazy, is something we experience daily because all Venezuelans are looking for ways to escape the inflation of the Venezuelan currency, which literally increases every single day!
#nostr #economy #venezuela #plebs #plebchain #money #usdt
Today I am back with a new photo session that I did in my studio for a guy who is a model and hired my photography services, he had a theme in mind for his photo session and I helped him make it a reality.
His idea was for the photo session to simulate a businessman or a successful man, so for that he used a formal white shirt and a leather jacket.
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At this point the character began to take off the jacket and we added some accessories to simulate that the person was finishing work or something like that.
Now without a jacket.
Today I want to share with you the second part of this photo session, on this occasion the girl used an all leather outfit that made her look like a rock star, she looked incredible!!
I started by taking a standing photo of her as usual.
But the girl told me that the photos she had in mind for this outfit were sitting so I put one of the cubes on the set for the girl to pose, she made a pose that highlighted her figure a lot and she looked incredible!
She is very photogenic and looks very pretty in all the photos!
Then I removed the cube and the girl sat on the floor to have more variety in the photos, the photo you will see below is my favorite of this whole set!
Then she leaned forward in a very feminine way and we managed to take two very beautiful photos.
This whole photo session flowed very fast because the girl had a lot of self confidence and was clear about the idea she had in mind and the photos she wanted to obtain and it is always very pleasant to work like this!
I took all the photos with my Canon R8 camera, a 50mm 1.8/f lens and two light points.
At the end of the photo session both the girl and I were super happy with the results and I hope you like them as much as we do!!
#photography #photostr
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