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Just so we're not talking past eachother.

You cannot send $10,000 anywhere in the world via Bitcoin for $2-7, you have to first convert the $10,000 to BTC at a local exchange, wait 3 days, pay 1-2%, suffer slippage, pay $2-7, wait an hour, pay 1-2% at the remote exchange and wait for the money to deposit into a bank account. This is true because you can't spend Bitcoin for goods and services - generally speaking anyways. Bitcoin in this context is just the intermediary unit which is elided in a wire.

Re: wires, domestic US wires are offered free of charge by many institutions, and are instant during regular business hours. Obviously delays apply outside. For reference, an ACH transaction costs banks $0.002 in bulk to the depository institution. A FedWire costs $0.033 in bulk to the depository institution. [1]

Transfers outside the US cost more and take longer because of AML and KYC.

Not to mention that the move in the US from ACH to RTP makes ~free and instant domestic transfers 24/7. No blockchain needed. Because of course there isn't, the current system was based on policy not technical limitations of MySQL. [2]

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/resources/fees/wires-2021.html

[2] https://www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/treasury-payments/insight...



    >> you can send $10,000 worth of BTC anywhere in the world 

    > You cannot send $10,000 anywhere in the world via Bitcoin
You are citing currency exchange costs that would also be applicable to EUR/JPY/GBP/...

This is why the post you responded to said "worth of BTC".




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