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Re:Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop by maxerickson on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @11:35PM (#7100742)
I was careful to ask how the bitcoin are going to get into the in-country economy.

If no one has any bitcoin then no one can work for bitcoin.

Of course, Argentinians could attempt to bootstrap their own cryptocurrency..

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Re:Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop by wslh on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @12:44AM (#7100982)
Of course, Argentinians could attempt to bootstrap their own cryptocurrency..

It's ironic that one of the cryptocurrency experts is Argentinian: http://bitslog.wordpress.com

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Re:Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop by marshray on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @12:30AM (#7100932)
Perhaps we ought turn the question around:

Under such circumstances, how is anyone going to keep bitcoin out of Argentina?

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Re:Argentina restricts online shopping as foreign reserves drop by maxerickson on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:52PM (#7104937)
I don't think anyone is going to keep bitcoin out of Argentina.

I just don't see how enough of them can get in for it to matter all that much.

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