Funny to see this post here, since I'm in Buenos Aires for the week, for vacations. I didn't know about that "blu dolar" rate before coming, so I didn't bring a

Funny to see this post here, since I'm in Buenos Aires for the week, for vacations. I didn't know about that "blu dolar" rate before coming, so I didn't bring any cash with me; I literally had 50$usd, used to pay the taxi from the airport to my Airbnb when I arrived, and then had my friend become crazy when she saw me use my american VISA to pay for things. "You're crazy, it's almost twice as expensive this way!". But it was too late, I didn't have any cash, and no way for me to get any USD - nor getting the black market rate through my credit card. (official rate is 5.88ars/usd, the blue dolar is ~10). Luckily enough, I started to buy bitcoins a few weeks ago, and for the same reasons the "blu dolar" exists here, bitcoin transactions in person/cash are really valued here, because you can guess, it is also really hard/expensive for Argentinians to buy bitcoins online (because of the rate/price of doing bank transfers in USD). So thanks to that, I was able today to arrange a cash transaction through localbitcoins.com - allowing me to sell a few bitcoins at the market price, in Argentinians Pesos, to the "blu rate"!