The spread between Gox and Bitstamp is up to $170, and the spreads on Gox are through the roof at $10 difference between bid and ask, while Bitstamp's are at $.1 or less.

Is the answer of "I will keep the money in a safe because I don't trust banks that impose such a low withdrawal limit." A good answer, or a bad one?

Article on the subject:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25877391

My favorite quote:
"Mr Capitanich said the government would reduce the tax rate on dollar purchases to 20% from the current 35%."

lol.

Sure. Practically speaking, "cracking a hash" would mean being able to find a practical and finite number of possible messages that would generate that hash.  From there you can use other identifying characteristics about the message itself to figure out which one is the real message. 

I'm 100% sure that SHA256 was born broken by the NSA, as well as every other method that they have released, but that's okay.  They won't reveal their crack just to mess with Bitcoin, and anyways they have probably already cracked most banking encryption as well.
So, you know...

That's the beauty of Bitcoin.  You can ship me Magic Cards, and I can pay you in Bitcoin over the internet for them, and there is no way for the government to prevent me from paying you.

It's pretty simple: can you think of anything that Argentinians might have that you know that
1. Has a pretty solid trade value, either on eBay or somewhere else
2. Isn't gold, silver or anything else that is obviously going to be confiscated at the border?

In all likelihood, the things we think of will be oddities that we only really know about because of our personal interests: that's why I know about Magic Cards for example.  These are the things that will be easier to get through customs, and because of their trade value they actually have a worth for someone to pay BTC for, even if they don't know the ins and outs of the item itself.

I made this thread for exactly this problem: how can we as a community actually get btc into Argentina?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=427605.0

Seriously, this is the situation that Bitcoin was created for, so if you have any ideas, let them fly!

Does this correspond to everyone's actual experience?

Is this an official announcement?

I sent you a PM.

It's too bad that Jamie Dimon doesn't like it, I suppose he will have to invest his firm's wealth in consumer credit card debt and overdue student loans instead 

If a single person had a large stash to sell on Bitstamp, why would you expect there to be large sales on other exchanges as well?

It looks like it was a giant sell order set to 810, that ran into a large buy wall also at 810.  you can see that part of the sell order went unfilled, and is creating a sizable sell wall at 810 in that picture.

Hi All,
Given the increasing news of the upcoming currency collapse in Argentina, I am interested in trading BTC to anyone in that country who feel that they are able to ship small amounts goods out of the country.  I know that it might be impossible to ship out Gold and Silver, but if you can think of anything else that you CAN get through, let me know and we might be able to make a deal!

As an aside, probably one of the better vehicles of trade are Magic Cards, funny though that might sound.  They are pretty common, it is doubtful that anyone expects them to have any value, but they have a pretty liquid market and cards can be found worth $5, $50, or $1,500. As an example, I would be happy to buy a stack of Revised Plateau's (link below) at a decent price.
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/magic_single_card.asp?cn=Plateau&sn=Revised%20Edition

What is the problem?

This is actually pretty worrying, Maybe it is because people are reporting that even local (Japanese) withdrawals in yen are in limbo lately.

Can packages go out of Argentina unmolested? For example if I sold BTC to an Argentinian for a few magic cards, would their shipment make it up to Wisconsin?

Hi All,
I saw this article on new Argentine regulations to severely curtail online imports to protect the Argentinean economy from the terrors of Amazon, and it got me really antsy about a currency collapse there:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25836208

As such, my next natural reaction was to wonder if it was possible for me (an American) to sell Bitcoins to people inside of Argentina, in exchange for goods shipped to me? It sounds like they have a pretty severe clamp on receiving shipments internationally, but are there any effective regulations to keep Argentinians sending out packages of Gold, Silver, Magic Cards, etc? To be honest, at this point working to get BTC into Argentina seems as much a mission of mercy as anything.

You are a bad mentor.