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SPOILER: it's not. > The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage. This article is
by davidgerard 12y ago
SPOILER: it's not.
> The number of Bitcoin users in Argentina is relatively small; it barely registers on most charts of global Bitcoin usage.
This article is hype: "This article was adapted from 'Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money'". It reads like a press release because it is one.
> This is the street-smart economics. Not the complex Ph.D. economics.
The phrase "I'm not book-smart, I'm street-smart" can be rephrased "I'm not real-credible, I'm fake-credible." It's the sort of thing expert beginners say, particularly when they've reached the stage of recognising and disparaging actual expertise in their subject. And hoo boy, Bitcoiners are at the far end of expert beginner.
There is no reason to expect anything good or useful from this article.