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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @2minutebitcoin 1 Feb 2023 \ parent \ on: Lebanon to devalue currency by 90% on Feb. 1, c.bank chief says bitcoin
Bitcoin challenges the State’s most treasured privilege: the ability to finance itself through inflation and seignorage, as well as other repressive tools a significant fraction of the world lives under - capital controls and local exchange rate manipulation.
As an example, Bitcoin is 8.5M argentine peso. Using the official exchange rate, that's 45,300 USD per BTC. The proper market rate for the peso is therefore