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 Would you rather Milei:

Kills the BCRA (arg’s central bank)

Or that he mandates it to back the peso with Bitcoin? 
 Down with the central bank. 
 Would certainly be an interesting experiment to have a Bitcoin backed currency. But it will never happen. 
 Does he like Bitcoin? Has he talked about Bitcoin? 
 I don’t know; bitcoiners seem to think so; afaik he just said he would just allow people to use whatever currency people want and that anything would be legal 
 Oh. So Shiba Inu or Doge or some other Shitcoin gets the same treatment? 
 Yup 
 That makes it less than cool. 
 That makes it a free market. 
 Exactly 
 He did mint some NFTs a couple of years ago that flopped and he had to buy himself 
 the blue/red buttom meme.jpg  
 Should this have a picture?? 
 Milei will not have to kill the central bank... the blue dollar : ARS will be a bloodbath tomorrow.  2000:1 is my guess.   The FX market will kill the BCRA for him. 
 Yes, reality has a lot of catching up to do. 
 I'm waiting for the Soy dollar to fall!  Let the farmers export at market rates and watch Argentina get back to actual work. 
 It will be a painful transition for some, but yes, it will be exciting to see actual workers keep their hard earned money. Entrepreneurs actually having hope of being allowed to operate new businesses and solve problems in their communities while not having to look over their shoulder, waiting for an agent of the state to put road block after road block in front of economic progress.

It is very exciting. 
 Back the peso with some bitcoin 
 2. But he was elected on 1.

1. Fires educatwd and entitled agitators into the wild. 2. Keeps them employed by going around the office asking "What the hell is Bitcoin ?" 
 The problem with not having a central bank is how do you handle foreign trade these days? Some institution has to have FX reserves to import goods. I think their largest trading partner is China so they need Yuan. 
 Let the company that's worried about importing stuff worry about that. The government doesn't and really shouldn't know or care.  
 Kill the bank, then dollarize, then declare BTC legal tender. 

Why dollarize? Because he said he would and I want to see at least one politician keep their promises.  
 Legal tender laws are dumb. Eliminate the central bank, shrink govt, let free market decide the best money 
 🤝🤝🤝 
 Option 2
But he says he wants to peg to the US dollar  
 Lot of game theory involved. If you kill the central bank do you lose the ability to use the peso to buy bitcoin for the country? If so I would keep the CB to use the peso to accumulate bitcoin... perhaps increasing demand for peso at the same time as devaluing it to buy bitcoin..