Quote from: heisenbit on January 22, 2014, 05:50:52 PM

Quote from: NUFCrichard on January 22, 2014, 07:47:57 AM

It sounds like Bitcoins would have to be taken into the country physically and exchanged by trading.
The person taking in the BTC would end up with a load of Pesos though, which probably isn't what they would want. It sounds difficult to arrange getting Bitcoins into an already closed system.

About 10 days ago, a local BTC exchange site was created, which allows to trade ARS/BTC (Unisend.com). Before this, the only way to obtain BTC was through localbitcoins or OTC, but you always ended up paying more than the actual value of a BTC in USD...

There is NOTHING WRONG with a premium on the price of a sought after commodity, and that is what Bitcoin will be in Argentina.

Looking at Unisend.com 6800 some pesos / bitcoin, something like 850USD / bitcoin. I suggest buy and don't think twice about it. You may in Argentina never see a bitcoin price that is not elevated above world average.