What I was going to say originally:
The maximum Greek ATM outflows are about EU840 Million a day according to
Loukia here.
...Varoufakis were to:
1. quietly accumulate about 200,000 to 400,000 BTC off-exchange (which would only cost him about 50-80 million Euros)
2. announce they were going to match the maximum weekly ATM withdrawals with a bitcoin airdrop to 5 million citizens (using a procedure pioneered by Aurora coin)
The bitcoin price could probably reach between $5000 and $10,000 just on that bombshell news which would give him the leverage to pull such a stunt off successfully and 'parachute in" a massive liquidity boost to his economy at the same time.
Off course, he'd make the announcement AFTER accumulating.
When you're all out of options, that's the kind of mad thing that has to be tried. Put it this way, someone's going to do it somewhere, sometime and things are starting to
not look too rosy in the fiat garden anymore.
It would work if there was more BTC-familiarization and a more tech-savy population. At the state where Greece is right now, it would only cause the undermining of the government in terms of reliability/seriousness/ability. Bitcoins instead of "real money" would quickly be dismissed by the opposition and the press (controlled by the opposition) as ridiculous / not serious.
There are various things the government could do to raise money (like BTC buying, using their gold reserves in a similar manner, playing the market by using inside info etc), but they have no balls to do these.
People around the world think the government is some kind of leftists radicals, but in all seriousness they are only "left" in things like gay marriages, prisoners rights, immigrants and stuff like that. Total NWO-alignment. Yet, in all things economic, they are almost indistinguishable from all the prior governments.
They got elected to provide a relief-plan that would cost ~12bn euro and instead they offered the troika a plan of 8bn ADDITIONAL AUSTERITY MEASURES. They are willing to sacrifice the local population in favor of the euro.
The troika said no, we want even more than those 8bn, we actually want >11bn, so that's our offer, take it or leave it. One guy even said to Tsipras, that's it, game over if you don't take our offer. So they were forcing Tsipras to either say no, or get totally humiliated by saying yes - which would not even pass the local parliament vote from his party.
Tsipras went the referendum way, which is problematic for the following reason: He says you have to vote yes (to what the troika wants) or no to those measures, and always within the framework of EU & the euro. So if I vote "no", and if that's still within the framework of EU & the euro, Tsipras will say "yes, but now that you rejected the troika deal, we have to make another deal, somewhat lighter - like our 8bn measures proposal". Yet Tsipras wasn't elected to pass 8bn austerity measures. Nor should my "no" to the 11bn+ measures be counted as a ...yes for Tsipras 8bn package of measures. Fuck them both, not because I don't like austerity, but because macro-economically they are both destroying the economy and burying it in the negative recession-debt spiral, where debt is always growing due to the drop of the GDP. Totally unsustainable.
As the situation is right now, there is a pretty vocal no movement, and a quite silent yes crowd. The yes crowd is those who value their comfort more than the austerity measures, naively thinking that it's more of the same that we've had the last 5 years - but it's far worse than that. Food prices would instantly rise by at least 15%, as would electricity, water etc - while income would drop further still and further recession would make the debt go to sky-high levels (>200% of GDP). I'm not sure which way it'll go, but I fear for the "yes", as the ECB flow stop and the ATM situation is a pretty effective blackmail against certain demographics, like pensioners.