TL;DR
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Argentina’s new president loves Bitcoin, which pushed BTC’s value up 3%, including ~$22B value of worth to its market cap in 24hrs.
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Whereas 3% does not sound like a lot, a 3% transfer in Bitcoin means ~$22B of recent worth (which is roughly all the market cap of Solana).
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See that man pictured above? Is he:
A) The bass participant in your good friend’s uncle’s band, who do largely Bon Jovi covers, and are nonetheless holding on to the hope that they’re going to sooner or later “make it”…
Or
B) A center college steerage counsellor who rides a motorcycle and wears the identical leather-based jacker every day (all in an try to be seen as ‘the cool instructor’)?
In the event you answered A or B, you are flawed. The right reply was:
C) The brand new president of Argentina (significantly).
And he has some fairly wild concepts relating to central banks and the Argentine peso…particularly, he desires to do away with each and dollarize the financial system.
Translation: he desires to do away with central banking in Argentina, and transfer the native financial system from utilizing Argentine pesos, to US {dollars}.
Questioning what this has to do with crypto?
Effectively, for those who’ve spent sufficient time within the area, you will know that this type of anti-central financial institution rhetoric usually goes hand in hand with a love for Bitcoin.
And Javier Milei (that is his title btw) is not any completely different.
He hasn’t outright stated that he desires to make Bitcoin authorized tender within the nation, however it would not be stunning if that confirmed up in future plans.
In consequence: Bitcoin jumped 3% in a 24hr interval.
Which does not sound like a lot, however a 3% transfer in Bitcoin means ~$22B of recent worth (which is roughly all the market cap of Solana).
Okay, however why such excessive measures?
Effectively, the Argentine peso’s shopping for energy has been reduce in half over the previous 12 months as a consequence of inflation…and all the nation’s GDP has barely doubled over the previous 100 years.
Which is all to say:
Issues (Argentina’s financial system/monetary system) have not been nice → they’re now getting worse → given all of that, the voting inhabitants is choosing what would have beforehand been thought of an ‘excessive’ financial answer.
However hey, if our financial savings misplaced half their shopping for energy in 12 months, possibly we would be open to slicing our losses and embracing a international foreign money.
Who is aware of ¯_(ツ)_/¯ hopefully, we by no means have to seek out out.
