A year into the pandemic: How Argentina's economy struggled while its crypto ...

A year into the pandemic: How Argentina's economy struggled while its crypto ...

Let's relive the events have that marked the Argentine crypto space since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and hear the opinions of those in the industry that lived them from the inside. The year 2020 will go down in history as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the way it affected the Argentine economy. But it is also true that Argentina has been dragging along economic problems for decades, with high fiscal pressure, devaluation of the national currency (the Argentine peso), restrictions on the purchase of foreign currency, etc. Beyond that, events have occurred that have....


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