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SLP498 BowTiedMara - Bitcoin and Geoarbitrage in Argentina

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The Parallel Market in Argentina

There are multiple rates for the Argentine peso. The government sets a fictitious rate that, you know, nobody follows because there's caps on buying dollars. So as soon as they install those caps with a limit of $200 a month that, youknow, you can buy at that rate, the parallel market emerged. And basically that's the blue rate, which is double the official rate, because the demand for dollars is just so high.

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