Michael Saylor is the owner of technology company MicroStrategy. But of the Argentines He is known for two things: he is one of the entrepreneurs with the most bitcoin and he follows the price of the blue dollar in the country.

In 2020, Saylor put all the money his company had (about $ 1.1 billion) and some of his personal fortune into cryptocurrency as well. Then get millionaire loans their handling of bitcoins guarantees to continue buying digital currency. So he and his company joined the group of people more bitcoins they own in the world (about 125,000)

And, in an interview with the American program UpOnly, he said the money lost in Argentina at the exit of convertibility and, later, without him being allowed by the Government to take dividends. Previously, I had read about the local economy on Twitter.

Now, the entrepreneur had a chance to find out cHow economic variables move in Argentina: He met former President Mauricio Macri, on a trip to the United States.

The person in charge of disseminating the meeting is the founder of PRO himself, on Twitter.

That’s all the comment, but that’s enough to achieve over 1,200 retweets and 7,800 likes.

During his trip to the United States, Macri also met this week with Donald Trump, that country’s former president, and shared a photo of the meeting. The meeting was held at the Mar-a-Lago residence the Republican has in Palm Beach, in the state of Florida.

Ang Saylor’s knowledge of Argentina was disclosed when, in October last year, the businessman responded to a tweet from Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Hanke was tough on President Alberto Fernández: “In Argentina, the central bank printed $ 250 billion pesos in the first 22 days of September, the most months in 2021. Fernández funds his printing expenses. Not surprisingly, the peso has lost 58.3% of its value against the dollar since January 2020. Argentina is doomed. “

And Saylor replied that “the problem in Argentina, though extreme, is not unique. Now, more than ever, all countries need proper money. Bitcoin is the solution and it represents hope for all living in a country that finances the cost of printing ”.

But it was last February, on a television program, where Saylor explained about Argentina, that it was surprising even with the knowledge of how much the blue dollar traded.

In the interview, Saylor commented: “I literally remember when 1 peso was worth 1 dollar – from 1991 to 2002 – and if you google the blue dollar today, you’ll see that it was at 210 Argentine pesos or a like this.”

The CEO of MicroStrategy said that at the time he had about $ 1 million in Argentina, which is equivalent to US $ 1 million. So he asked his company’s finance people to put the money in a U.S. bank in Argentina because he didn’t trust local entities. however, the money is still pesified.

In that interview, Saylor also commented on the country’s restrictions on paying dividends and high inflation, issues that They must be in a meeting with Macri.

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