American Airlines No Longer Accepting Argentine Pesos: How About Bitcoins?
American Airlines has stopped accepting payments in Argentine pesos. This decision the result of Argentine government’s currency controls that make it difficult to convert pesos into dollars to repatriate earnings. The constraints on buying dollars have been becoming untenable for a while. American Airlines “had been limiting its Argentine peso holdings....
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