Alex Kruger, who I frequently quote, who is himself from Argentina, said,

Miele is neither good nor bad.

He is different.

And for Argentina, different means good.

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Argentinian presidential candidate who is a pro-Bitcoin candidate. Before we get into that,

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If you have been on Bitcoin Twitter in the last day or so, you've probably seen someone talking

about the pro-Bitcoin Argentinian presidential candidate that just won a primary election.

As a representative tweet, Marty Bent said,

Argentina electing an anarcho-capitalist president and embracing Bitcoin would be pretty epic,

especially when the world sees how quickly they recover from a multi-decade

bout of fiat-induced economic mismanagement. Now, this is indeed a really interesting development.

However, it can be very easy, all too easy, frankly, for bitcoiners or crypto advocates to get so

excited about a politician from somewhere else sharing our views on those particular topics, that we

fail, A, to see the politician for their full set of policies and beliefs, or B, fail to put it

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