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Argentina | 2022

Cryptocurrency adoption in Argentina as of 2022

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5.6

%

of Argentinians
own cryptocurrency

How many crypto owners are there in Argentina?

It is estimated that over 2.5 million people, 5.6% of Argentina’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency.¹

What is the state of Crypto in Argentina?

There has been an exponential rise in the usage of Cryptocurrency in Argentina. The temperature has steadily been rising in the Argentinian crypto space for several months of 2019, creating a clear timeline for the increased acceptance of Bitcoin and other alternative assets. The nation’s economy and fiat currency have been especially wobbly since August 2019 as the stock market hemorrhaged during an upset presidential election. In addition to damaging the return value on investments, this also caused the peso’s value to plummet. Very soon after this initial trigger, the relative valuation and trading volume of Bitcoin spiked to levels comparable to conflict-stricken regions like Hong Kong.2

Crypto’s rising popularity in Argentina

  • BBC: Why Argentina is embracing cryptocurrency – April 2022
    Argentina’s economic downturn, with high inflation, a deflating currency and a shortage of US dollars to invest in, has in fact proved a shot in the arm for one sector: cryptocurrency. As they seek safe havens for their dwindling nest eggs, Argentines — used to buffering against economic crises — have been putting their money into Bitcoin, Tether, Ethereum or Dai.

 

 

  • Cointelegraph: A year into the pandemic: How Argentina’s economy struggled… – March 2021
    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 to do with attempts to regulate the crypto ecosystem, in addition to those linked to private companies and the adoption of cryptocurrencies. The following is a summary of the events that marked the last year and the opinions of various people who lived it from inside the ecosystem.

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