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I cycled into Zimbabwe sometime 2008 and exchanged one usd to 500.000.000 Zim dollars. One week later I left the country and it had increased to 1.2 bn. The shops were almost empty - except for large quantities of Heinz ketchup.

Were you able to repay debts with the inflated money?

as a Zimbabwean too, I wish the best of luck to Venezuelans. the hyper-inflation era, was rough. prices changing every 30 mins. people stopped counting money, it was about how thick it looked while boarding public transit. But yeah Venezuela need to get off the 2 currency system as it's prone to manipulation. I wonder, how it will work for them though, since they're under massive sanctions from the US

Did the government still bother to collect taxes, and did they accept US dollars instead?