Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches. Anarcho-capitalist Libertarian President Javier Milei has achieved a fiscal surplus in 2 months as president. Mull that one over for a minute. In a world where government cronies debase their people's currency to finance political pet projects, Argentina's new administration has effectively done a 180 in 60 days as president. He's eliminated 50,000 government jobs, allowed another 10,000 contracts to expire without renewal, eliminated 98% of provincial discretionary spending (insisting that they stick to their own budgets), and created a special unit of attorneys tasked with investigating previous government corruption/theft. Oh, and he's doubled down on his promise to eliminate the central bank while enacting a monetary competition (that will enact dollarization in the near-term, but inevitably embrace Bitcoin in the long-term as people realize the dollar's dying as well). You're allowed to negotiate contracts in whatever currency you wish, Bitcoin included, and Bitcoin transactions are tax-free. So yeah...when are you coming down? I'm here in Córdoba (where we voted 75% in favor of these measures) waiting for you. First asado's on me when you get here. LFG Boots-on-the-ground videos and content coming soon. We start filming this week. Saludos!

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches. Bitcoin-only content and interviews with Argentinians on living through currency implosion coming up soon. I literally haven't been able to find any English content on this aside from the tired takes from armchair quarterbacks throwing in their 2 sats from the burbs in 'Murica. If there's anything in particular you want me to be asking, let me hear about it in the comments. Brainstormed with my video editor today who's 100% on-board and grateful to be a part of history, building out Argentina's first Bitcoin-only education initiative with the Mi Primer Bitcoin foundation. LFG

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches. Milei just dropped a bomb on the status quo, the political caste. He's doubling down on his mission to complete his mandate given to him by the Argentinian people, despite having his Omnibus Law repealed by corrupt, inept Congressmen responsible for the disastrous state we find ourselves in down here Here's the English translation for my gringo brethren: CHANGE OF RULES The national government has taken on the responsibility of addressing three fundamental problems plaguing our country: inflation, insecurity, and the privileges of politicians. We have come to propose a different model from the impoverishing model of the last 100 years. And we came to do it in front of the Argentine people. With the truth in one hand and freedom in the other. We did not come here to continue playing the same impoverishing game of the usual politicians. We did not come here to make spurious pacts against the interests of Argentines. And we will not be complicit in the game of the same old parasites who live at the expense of Argentines. The government sent a bill to the National Congress to restore freedom to Argentines. This bill reflects our vision for the country. A free country, where citizens can live their lives without depending on a bureaucrat who demands a bribe to clear an import. The government does not need the law. Argentines need it. And we will achieve it, sooner or later. Because the will of a few convinced is more powerful than that of many without principles or morals. What happened in Congress perfectly represents the problem we are facing. A group of politicians who will do the impossible to maintain their privileges. The caste. We have been saying this since we got into politics. We knew it was going to happen. That's why we designed an economic program to exterminate inflation without the need for Congress or any of those who intend to continue living like kings at the expense of taxpayers. Throughout the campaign, we said that we would send our projects to Congress and politicians would have to decide which side of History they wanted to be on. Whether they wanted to be part of the change or wanted to continue maintaining their privileges. We also said that if they did not support the changes, we would expose them to society so that their dealings, privileges, and corruption would be exposed. And that's what we are going to do. We will not be complicit in the business of some with the fishing industry, the Tobacco Lord, the oil companies, or any of the other special interests that lobby and "persuade" politicians to defend their interests. For many years in Argentina, there was a group of politicians who claim to represent moderation, dialogue, consensus, and sensibility, who only guarantee the status quo in exchange for personal business deals. Automobile registrations, lithium concessions, handing out envelopes to journalists, and many other deals some politicians make while "defending the Republic" on television. All that is over with us. If they have a problem with us exposing what they do, how they vote, and who they answer to, it's because they are not defending the interests of the Nation, but their own. We did not come to continue with the wheel of politics as usual. We came to break it. We do not care about the operations, the defamation, the newspaper headlines. We do not care about the pressure from those who destroyed this country. We are not playing a game. We do not care about paying the political cost of doing what needs to be done because our goal is to solve the problems of Argentines and not to perpetuate ourselves in power. We came to change this country. With the same conviction that our May Heroes had, we come to defend The Cause of Freedom. You will have to choose which side you are on. Argentines already know which side we are on, and we will demand it from them. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT!!!

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches. I've been trying to distill what's taken place down here over the past 72 hours and it just keeps getting better. Legit post coming soon, but I had to jump on to the Nostr to mention what just came out: Milei just cut discretionary spending doled out to the provinces by 98%. Holy hell. That's what you get for betraying the will of the people, mfers. The entitled political class has been put on notice that you don't fuck with the democratic process under the Milei administration. I'll have a more solid, boots-on-the-ground dispatch for y'all tomorrow. Time to get offline and go touch grass, or whatever the kids are saying these days....

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches. Javier Milei's Ley de Omnibus was passed in the Congress's lower house with a 56% majority vote, with two supposedly two pro-Libertarian deputies curiously voting in favor of keeping around the bureaucratic rat's nest created by the Kirchnerista administrations. There will most likely be repurcussions to that from their voters. One has to wonder if extortion is in the mix. In further anti-corruption news, food stamp benefits will no longer be disbursed to various corrupt entities previously in charge of further distribution of funds. Rather, the Milei administration has proposed distributing funds directly to soup kitchens around the country, eliminating unnecessary middlemen and potential for squandered funds. On a personal note, my Dad's best friend's church ran a soup kitchen here for more than a decade and it's incredible to see how far funds can go here. I met so many good people who simply were victims of corrupt collectivist economic policy for the past 60 years. Would be fascinating to see how much further funds could go with NGOs operating on a Bitcoin standard. Fix the money fix the world, right? We are still so damn early. This week debate in the upper house of Congress begins in earnest and most likely will take a bit longer, but there is a strong tailwind that will hopefully encourage expediency bc the economy is FUBAR until we rip apart this bureaucratic nightmare created by corrupt collectivist mafiosos. To put things in perspective, statistics reveal that the average Argentinian entrepreneur has to spend 90 business hours a year simply taking care of fool's errands created by the previous administration. That equates to roughly 3 weeks a year of just running around like a chicken with its head cut off to simply remain compliant. We're the world champs at bureaucracy as well as fútbol. DALE CAMPEON! I spent FIVE YEARS running around nearly every single federal/provincial office here in Córdoba attempting to set a legal precedent with my dual citizenship (my father left Argentina in '69 and didn't show up in the current system). I left no stone unturned. I'd walk into certain offices and the employees would greet me and share mate with me, lol. Upon achieving success with my case I quite literally HAD FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASKING ME HOW I CUT THROUGH THE RED TAPE. Shit you not. Anyways...maybe a story for another time; that's the tip of the iceberg. OK, quick little Sunday dispatch. We'll chat a bit about the situation with the upper house debates and the ridiculousness that will inevitably ensue. Until then, stack sats and tell your family you love them.

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches. Milei's Omnibus Law is a done deal. They got it done in a month during vacation time (when usually absolutely nothing happens). It can't be understated how impressive this is. 600 repeals were initially proposed and 386 survived, with the more contentious issues still to be debated down the road. A massive tour de force, quite honestly. This is just the beginning of unraveling the economic clusterf*ck implemented by the previous Kirchnerista administrations. Today is a very, very good day for economic freedom in Argentina. Celebrate with me. Details to follow. Bullish AF 🔥

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." -William Gibson

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-lovings Nostriches. Rumors are swirling about that Milei's Omnibus Ley is getting passed tomorrow. Certain compromises have been made and other more hotly-contested issues need to be ironed out with the socialist cucks, but dependable sources are saying it's a done deal after tomorrow's vote. Most experts were saying this wouldn't be happening until March, but here we are and they got it done before February could even announce its arrival. Stay tuned for updates tomorrow if I manage to jump online after moving into my new penthouse I'm paying $400/month for. VLLC

Greetings from Argentina you freedom-loving Nostriches. Let's talk about Javier Milei's administration continuing to shrink the government down here, shall we? Hopefully this puts you in a good mood on this beautiful Monday. The Secretary of Commerce, Pablo Lavigne, recently announced SIXTY NINE (insert meme) new repeals to the bureaucratic fever dream created by the previous Kirchner administrations. It's truly unbelievable how much government overreach was created in the past few years. The goal of the repeals is to encourage more transparent, less bureaucratic domestic commerce, encourage competition, and to effectively throw off the bureaucratic straight jacket of socialism placed on Argentinian entrepreneurs by the fucking Peronistas who have all but killed off the country’s economy and perverted incentives. The rate at which the Argentinian economy's architecture is changing is making my head spin and I have zero complaints. I had no idea how apt the chainsaw memes would turn out to be. Bullish AF on Argentina. LFG Here’s a short summary of just some of the new changes: 
 -Price controls…AFUERA! -System for Inspection of Signs and Labels (SiFIRE)…AFUERA! That's right...the government would literally attempt to control small business advertisements. -Rules in regards to how to display products of the same category on market shelves…AFUERA! -Additional display space regulations for assorted retail products…AFUERA! -Measuring instruments for inspectors to enforce supply in supermarket aisles…AFUERA! -Encouraging companies to increase production to the maximum of their capacity so that there are no shortages in the near-term -Price caps for products in the basic basket…AFUERA! -"Training and Knowledge Economy Program" for Municipalities…they’re literally teaching the socialists how to survive in a free and open market rather than depend on taxpayer-funded handouts (that we continue to pay for). -Deregulation of licenses for importing MERCOSUR products -Initiation of “Access to Argentine Regional Products" program in large sales areas -The SIRIP computer system that functioned to control/manipulate market prices…AFUERA! -Amount of share capital from which the Corporations were subject to permanent state supervision…GONE -Obligation of universities to inform the state of their tuition fees 
 

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Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches. Ludwig von Mises on why Argentina needs austerity to overcome the previous administration's crippling inflation: “Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other. If government spending is financed by borrowing from the commercial banks, it means credit expansion and inflation. If in the course of such an inflation the rise in commodity prices exceeds the rise in nominal wage rates, unemployment will drop. But what makes unemployment shrink is precisely the fact that real wage rates are falling.”

Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches. 

 Wow, so Milei went to Davos and punched the WEF in the mouth. Que locura! 

 It was the central planner Ricky Gervais moment administered by a current head of state. Absolutely epic. 

 Let’s quickly summarize things, shall we? 

 Milei passionately argues that the Western world is in peril, not from external threats, but from internal ideological shifts towards socialism and collectivism, which he believes inherently lead to poverty and societal decay. Milei employs a historical perspective to bolster his argument, pointing to the exponential economic growth and reduction in global poverty directly correlated with the adoption of capitalist principles since the 1800s. He asserts that capitalism, far from being a cause of societal woes, is the only viable economic system for eradicating poverty on a global scale. Milei emphasizes that this system is not just economically superior, but also morally desirable, challenging the notion that capitalism is inherently unfair or exploitative. Critiquing modern economic theories, Milei warns against state interventions labeled as remedies for market failures. He argues that such interventions, often under the guise of achieving social justice or correcting market inefficiencies, actually lead to reduced economic growth, freedom, and prosperity. Milei posits that these policies, rather than solving problems, create a downward spiral of regulation and control, ultimately leading to more poverty and less freedom. Concluding his speech, Milei calls for a revival of libertarian principles—respecting individual liberty, private property rights, and limited government. He portrays entrepreneurs and private enterprises as heroes of economic prosperity, urging them to resist state encroachment and excessive regulation. Milei's message is clear: the path to sustained prosperity and freedom lies in embracing and protecting the principles of free-market capitalism. Government intervention? Afuera!

Bitcoin is the last trade.

Greetings from Argentina. Learned a lot about ETFs today. Long story short, on-chain settlement only happens once a day, from what I've gathered. The suits have no idea how quickly BTC could rip and leave them with their pants down. Lots of questions still surrounding those financial vehicles. A lot could go wrong quite easily. Buy BTC and self-custody and you sleep like a baby.

Greetings from Argentina. BTC ATH and all your normie friends hitting you up by end of January . That's the note.

Greetings from Argentina. Admittedly have been completely consumed with the implications of the spot ETFs. This is the American side of me. Say what you will about this development, but it's going to orange pill so many goddamn people our heads are going to spin. Wall Street is a trojan horse for separating the money from the government. Crazy take, I know. Are you ready, anon?

Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches. Below is a visual of the BCRA's monetry emission over the past 12 months in terms of national GDP. Absolute INSANE amounts of printing. Sergio Massa used taxpayer money to finance his presidential campaign. If you live down here you can confirm the ocean of pamphlets, billboards, flyers, volunteers, temporary office rentals, etc. All of this was financed with taxpayer money, mortgaging the future purchasing power of the peso in order to win an election, with zero fiscal accountability. This is why the money needs to be separated from despotic politicians and government. This is why we Bitcoin.

Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches. President Javier Milei has formally requested an exhaustive audit of former president Alberto Fernandez's expenditures. The skeletons in the closet are countless and a testament to why we need to separate the money from the State. This is why we Bitcoin. This is why Bitcoin education is so desperately needed. Once people realize that inflation is now a choice, we win.

GM. USD for BTC is the last trade.

Greetings from Argentina, you freedom-loving Nostriches. The huberis surrounding the Javier Milei megadecree in Argentina is astonishing, especially if one ventures out to see what the MSM have to say as they flood the airwaves with worthless takes and toxic sensationalism. Be intentional about your information intake, anon. I'll keep trying to give more boots-on-the-ground signal.

Greetings from Argentina. "Don't touch. For change only." When money fails. No hay plata, criollos sí.