What a ridiculous article, but thanks for posting it.

"The Winklevoss brothers predicted that the coins could peak at $40,000 each. Of course, it turned out that, as in so many other things, the brothers were dead wrong."  This guy either is being purposefully obtuse or is just stupid.  No one said $40,000 right now.  No one said $40,000 in January.  I had to stop reading after his stupidity at the start because if he was that dumb, the rest of his speculation is probably as bad.

He was probably one of the people who said that June 2010 when it hit nearly a dime per that it was a bubble and that people who were saying it would be worth, $1, $10, $100, or $1000 were "dead wrong."

"Government launching a review of the printing press and fire".  How about just get out of the way!

This is correct. I use my card and pay it off each month in full so it is a zero interst loan with 1-2% cash back and in March this year it was 849/850.

Debt on cards is at too high a rate.

You are right.  It seems the Dogecoin pump and dump has ended and the bag-holders are left holding the bag. Dogecoin seems dead, and I see no advantage to litecoin to allow merged mining.

QFT.

Manipulation of currency causes the problems Argentina is facing.

I don't think "slavery" means what you think it means.

Argentina was never forced to do any of this.  They voluntarily agreed to borrow money and then failed to repay it. 

The article doesn't properly focus on the fact that the Argentinian government borrowed money, agreed to pay it back at a certain rate, and then failed to do so.  At the same time also agreeing to let U.S. Courts decide the issue.

The issue is simple:  Argentina has been ruled by authoritarian deadbeats for a very long time who are more interested in raping the Argentinian people and maintaining their own power than doing what is right for Argentina and her people.  They are more than willing to agree to one thing and then try to change the rules later and then complain about it being "evil financial interests" or some other scapegoat in order to distract the people from the fact that they are doing things only for their own power.

The Argentinian government can not be trusted to do what they agree to do.  Anyone who loans money to them is extremely stupid because they have shown repeatedly that they want to take someone else's money and never repay it.

There were a ton of winners in the cold war - everyone alive who had a hot war prevented.

Check out the racism there - anti-people from below the equator!

Here are some previous discussions on the topic:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52155.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60703.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86589.0

DigitalOcean has some good servers.  They are inexpensive and seem reliable too.

No, Argentina is a country with a woman-who-has-absolutely-no-idea-what-she-is-doing for president. I.e. B. H. Obama with boobs.

FTF Someone.

Sounded pretty useful from here.

The odds of this happening are so close to zero that it makes a btc address collision seem likely.

An authoritarian, socialist like the President of Argentina will do nothing that takes her control and power away which is what this idea would do. Her empty statements about helping the poor are nothing more than platitudes to appease the masses and maintain her power.

It would be a benefit for Argentina but won't happen.

The current fascist/authoritarian/statist system is doomed.

FTFY.

The other thread discusses it, but if they get bitcoin and then sell it for fiat, volatility in fiat terms is gone.  Then you convert back to bitcoin when needed.

Seems like hype.

This.  Anyone can get into bitcoin, whether they have a penny, a dollar, or a million dollars.  Even if you have NO money you can get into bitcoin if you have a skill you can sell. 

Self-defeating attitudes hold so many people back from reaching their true potential.

:-)

Yeah.  If you are trading bitcoin for pesos, you have to have a nearly immediate use for a lot of pesos or you will likely be stuck holding the bag.  Inflation is already high, but if it goes up from 30%+, you need some type of hard asset.  Or you'll be stuck if the peso crashes more than it has due to default and other mismanagement.

And it isn't the official Wall Street Journal page either.  As you said, both the-wsj.com and block-chainl.info are scam sites.

If they could do so - with gold, silver, dollars or bitcoin - they would do so.  The problem is multi-fold:  import/export controls, capital controls, and finding people who want pesos.  

I feel for the people of Argentina who are being used and abused by power-hungry authoritarian statists who care only for themselves and their money and power instead of the people.

I had forgotten that the IMF showed up with tanks, guns, biological weapons and nuclear weapons that forced the Argentinian government to borrow money (repeatedly), agree to having disputes litigated in US courts, pretty high interest rates and then try to avoid doing what they agreed when paying it back.  Face it, after the default ~13 years ago, no sane person would lend them money without specific guarantees (and ditto before the 13 years ago default, they wanted specific guarantees then too).  Argentina keeps making agreements and then failing to live up to them.  Each time the requirements get tougher - frankly though I am surprised anyone would loan them any money at all.

I am no fan of the IMF and its policies, most are stupid and just encourage the same bad behavior that leads to the crises in the first place, but blaming the IMF for Argentina's default is like blaming the drug manufacturer for your drug problem.  Argentina's government has been profligate for many decades, each time getting worse, trying to live at someone else's expense. Until they realize they can't live beyond their means, this will keep happening.  (And the same thing is happening all over: Greece, US, Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, many other places.  Everyone thinks they can borrow, borrow, and borrow and never have to repay it because money just grows on trees.)