在世界許多地方，近年來，由於經濟狀況不佳，公民對政府的不滿情況已經很明顯。各國政府一直在努力調整和糾正一些政策。然而，中央銀行影響市場的許多方式是公民可以控制其貨幣體系的創新概念的動力。本文將研究其中一項名為比特幣的創新。

2008年金融危機之後，出現了一個新的命題，排除了任何中央政府免受某種貨幣的干預。創建了一個項目，考慮到在處理付款時，不需要中間人來執行用戶之間的交易。在最開始，沒有人注意到沒有人知道，但在過去幾年裡，現在眾所周知的比特幣已經受到全世界的關注，這個話題引起了大的消息。

在本文中，描述了理解比特幣生態系統的基本概念，並對此數字貨幣體系進行了簡要介紹。本文的主要焦點是比特幣在拉丁美洲的使用和傳播，並進行了深入的分析，發現與採用比特幣相關的經濟體的核心問題。本文強調兩個特定國家，委內瑞拉和阿根廷，主要是因為經濟原因。

In many places around the world, the discontent from citizens towards governments because of poor economic situations has been evident in recent years. Governments have been trying to make adjustments and correct some policies. However, the many ways in which central banks influence markets has been the motivation for innovative concepts in which citizens can take control of their monetary system. This paper will study one of these innovations called Bitcoin.

After the financial crisis of 2008, a new proposition arose to exclude any central government from the intervention of a given currency. A project was created bearing in mind that no intermediary would be needed to executed transactions between users when dealing with payments. At the very beginning no one paid attention and nobody know about it, but in the last few years, what is now well known as Bitcoin has received worldwide attention and big news has been arising from this topic.

In this paper, the basic concepts for understanding the Bitcoin ecosystem is described, and a brief introduction regarding this digital currency system is undertaken. The primary focus of the paper is the usage and spread of Bitcoin in Latin America, and an in-depth analysis is done, finding core issues on economies which are related to the adoption of Bitcoin. The paper places an emphasis on two particular countries, Venezuela and Argentina, primarily because of economic reasons.

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