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 North Korea and Burma share many similarities, but for some reason, global media and academia rarely highlight the financial structural violence.

In 1987, the Burmese military demonetized Burmese banknotes, resulting in the entire population falling into poverty without choice, with the '90s generation born into poverty by default.

In 2009, North Korea announced a currency revaluation, offering their people the chance to exchange their savings at a 1 to 100 ratio.

If there were a decentralized currency in cyberspace that nobody controls, millions of people could resist their orders and reclaim power back into their hands.
 
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