Bitcoin jumped nearly 3% after a pro-crypto candidate from the far proper handily defeated Argentina’s present financial minister within the nation’s presidential election.
Bitcoin broke via the $37,000 mark, and was nonetheless up 2% over the previous 24 hours, after Javier Milei, a populist determine who labels himself an anarcho-capitalist and libertarian, was named the winner. Milei has discovered an viewers in Argentina—and among the many crypto devoted—partly for his radical financial proposals equivalent to eliminating the country’s central bank.
Milei is pleasant to cryptocurrencies, particularly the most well-liked token, Bitcoin. In an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarín he raged towards central banks and politicians, including that Bitcoin was the pure response towards “the scam that is central banks.”
“What Bitcoin is representing is the return of money to its original creator, which is the private sector,” he mentioned.
The 53-year-old economist could also be pleasant to Bitcoin however he doesn’t help making it authorized tender as did El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in 2021. Milei has mentioned he plans to dollarize Argentina’s financial system in a bid to combat the greater than 140% inflation that the South American nation is going through.
Nonetheless, some notable crypto figures have congratulated the president-elect, together with MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor and Arthur Hayes, the cofounder of crypto alternate BitMEX.
#Bitcoin is hope for Argentina. Congratulations @JMilei.
— Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) November 20, 2023
Whereas Milei’s libertarian views on the financial system have proved in style amongst Argentinians, the politician’s radical stances on different points have alienated others. Milei has actively opposed intercourse schooling and feminist causes, and he’s mentioned that humans are not the cause of global climate change, contradicting an almost unanimous scientific consensus.
