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We drive a bus on Buenos Aires around the world a week a year.

Have a lot of fun, just the guys get together and drink Matty and make many, many miles.

That's Wences Kazaaris, serial startup founder from Argentina, and he's taking us with him on a yearly journey with a group of lifelong friends. I want you to imagine this beloved bus. It looks like the

product of a school bus that got freaky with an RV and then spent its retirement in the apocalyptic world

of Mad Max.

In the run-up to one of their epic trips, Wences got word that the bus had broken down.

The repairs weren't difficult, but paying for them was, especially as Wences was living in California at the time

while the bus was in Argentina.

We had to send some money if we were fixing some things in the bus,

and Argentina has shut down Western Union, pay-ball everything.

You could send money to the Central Bank, but it was cumbersome, expensive. It looked like their next trip would be stalled until the

Argentinian financial system was sorted out, but that could be months, even years.

Then a friend made a suggestion.

Have you looked into Bitcoin?

Bitcoin.

This was 2011, just two years. And Wences was caught off guard.

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