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Today, we launch a superior financial experience to a country that faces hyperinflation, predatory payment networks, and unusable cross-border transfers

Today, we use the world's open monetary network, #Bitcoin, to give hope to the people of Argentina
Argentina is plagued with a history of economic turmoil and uncertainty.

Inflation will reach 55% this year.

GDP will contract by 12% this year.

There have been 8 currency crises since the central bank was founded.

Half the population is already living in poverty.
In 1991, amidst hyperinflation, Argentina launched the Argentine Peso that pegged to the dollar

However, they never converted to dollarization, government spending soared, and peso devaluation began in 2001

This resulted in dollars as the primary unit of account in the country
As such, Argentinians have historically fled to the dollar

An estimated 10%+ of the physical stock of dollars in the world is within the Argentine financial system

There is soaring demand for harder, more stable, money and a monetary policy the people of Argentina can rely on
As Argentinians lose confidence and flee their peso for dollars, the country’s reserves shrink.

This has forced the government to devalue their currency, place restrictions on how much foreign currency citizens can hold, and shut down dollar-denominated payment networks.
However, this hasn't stopped the Argentine people.

Dollars are now double the official rate in the parallel market and other payment mediums have been born to facilitate transactions between different currencies, peers, businesses, and countries.
There is now unprecedented demand for an open monetary system that lives within a distributed network, has a known monetary policy, a fixed supply, and is resistant to censorship.

Argentina needs the best monetary asset and the best monetary network in human history: #Bitcoin
With Strike, the Argentinian people can now hold a stable cash balance that can be spent both instantly and with no fees.

Cheap, instant, cash final, global payments of any size, for anyone, to anywhere. Even over @Twitter.

No inflation.

No restrictions.

Financial freedom.
This is a superior financial experience that legacy financial institutions and governments have failed to deliver to the people of Argentina.

#Bitcoin is a superior monetary system that builds towards financial inclusion and helps re-instill basic human freedoms.

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19 Oct 21
@mcuban @saylor #bitcoin the asset is the best asset in human history. Until it’s properly valued, nobody will be incentivized to spend it

#Bitcoin the network is the best monetary network in human history. Everyone will be incentivized to use it, regardless of the money people prefer to spend
@mcuban @saylor #Bitcoin is the internet of money.

The internet is the standard for cheap, instant, global communication.

#Bitcoin is the standard for cheap, instant, global monetary settlement.

The same way the VISA network is used to settle USD, the #Bitcoin network can as well, just better
@mcuban @saylor Just made a $2 purchase from a company in Stockholm.

Cheap, instant, global settlement achieved.

I used USD, not BTC.

There was no taxable event triggered.

We simply used the #Bitcoin monetary network as the settlement standard.

No other monetary network can achieve that.
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7 Sep 21
One small step for #Bitcoin, one giant leap for mankind.

Today, humanity takes a giant leap forward in promoting human freedoms, improving financial inclusion, and securing economic stability + economic opportunity for all.

Happy #BitcoinDay ✊β™₯οΈπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡»

Today, a developing nation is protecting against the monetary expansion from central banks and the spillover that large-scale printing of dollars has on the quality of its citizens lives by embracing a monetary system built upon a peer-to-peer network and digital signatures.
Today, a developing nation subscribes to a monetary policy defended by a distributed network.

One that cannot be altered by any central bank, government, or 3rd party.

An asset with an issuance rate known from day one and a fixed supply that was established before its launch.
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19 Aug 21
With @Bitnob_official's Lightning Network integration, we now have free, instant, non-reversible remittances of any size to and from the United States, Nigeria, and Ghana.

$10 in my US bank account became spendable NGN for @bernard_parah in seconds.

Monetary history.
I didn't have to register the transfer through a financial intermediary such as @WesternUnion, request private banking details of @bernard_parah, or wait days for the payment to settle.

With @ln_strike, my US dollars are interoperable with the world's first open monetary network
.@bernard_parah didn't have to bus to a @WesternUnion to pick up the money, he didn't owe any intermediary a percentage of the transaction, the payment wasn't reversible and settled instantly.

He simply withdrew to his bank account and had spendable Naira in seconds.
Read 8 tweets
1 Jul 21
I just published Announcing the Bitcoin Tab

Today, the cost to acquire bitcoin works its way towards zero.

Buying #bitcoin for no added fees is how it always should have been.

Now it is.

Pawn to e4, world. Your move.

link.medium.com/aBdzsAEFxhb
A picture says a thousand words.

#Bitcoin Image
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1 Jun 21
Yes, the #Bitcoin car placed 8th. However, #Bitcoin won the Indy 500. We won this race before it even started.

The first community-funded car.

Shattered merchandise records.

Most importantly, we raised millions of dollars for #Bitcoin open-source development.
Yes, the race is over, but the #Bitcoin Car still has one more week.

We are still accepting donations that will go towards supporting #Bitcoin open-source development.

This will be one of the biggest #Bitcoin open-source funding events in the asset’s history.
The #Bitcoin Car is being shipped to Miami as we speak and will be present at @TheBitcoinConf.

The entire @ECRIndy team will be at @TheBitcoinConf.

I will be announcing the total amount raised and the initial allocations at the @TheBitcoinConf.
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