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Well yea, the main use case is crime. You've just admitted to committing a crime.


Surely we can think of other reasons they might want to avoid TradFi?

Maybe the payment is related to, say, Cannabis, so companies like Wise would refuse to facilitate it [1], legal or not.

Or perhaps they've heard the stories of PayPal seizing funds with no explanation or recourse (e.g. [2]), and don't want to roll the dice on that.

Maybe they want to exchange currency at the actual market rate, rather than PayPal's 3-4% spread.

Or they might not want to wait forever for a two-sided ACH transfer (usually the cheapest option with e.g. Wise), or pay wire fees and still have to wait until Monday morning before a US bank will consider processing the transfer.

[1] https://wise.com/acceptable-use-policy

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/paypal-stole-use...




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