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Not at all. At the time, I could have gone to Uruguay for the day, withdrawn $1000 USD from a local bank, and turned it into ARS$15000. Or I could have gotten A
by noduerme 4y ago
Not at all. At the time, I could have gone to Uruguay for the day, withdrawn $1000 USD from a local bank, and turned it into ARS$15000. Or I could have gotten ARS$3000 from withdrawing the same $1000 USD from a local ATM. Cristina Kirchner's money controls were absurd, and I was there the day Macri got elected and let the currency shoot up and obliterate everyone's ARS bank account. Everyone with any brains in Argentina owned USD and got it out of the country any way possible. I was the only person stupid enough to be bringing it in. What the fuck should I worry about.
- gotorazor 4y agoI think that's the part why your story didn't make any sense to me. I am not questioning its truthfulness. Just, why? Why even go thru the hassle of using bitcoins? You could just exchange it with the guy on the street for pesos. Not sure about ten years ago. Right now, you can even western union money to yourself at the blue rate. I am sure you can even just pay people in USD in many cases.
- noduerme 4y agoI'm not sure what the pay rate is now for Western Union, but the fees are high, and at the time I believe you only got the official rate in pesos. Moreover, I got a huge additional discount from my landlord for paying in actual USD as opposed to the same amount in blue rate pesos, because the pesos were hard to change and would be worth less the next month. I also ran a startup Bitcoin casino at the time, so I had access.