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Topic: Bitcoin's Role in Global Remittances: Can it Disrupt Traditional Money Transfers - page 2. (Read 183 times)

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Remittances are a huge part of the global economy but traditional money transfer services can be slow and expensive. Bitcoin offers a faster and more cost effective alternative. Could bitcoin disrupt the remittance industry and become the go to solution for cross border payments? What are the potential for bitcoin to change the way we send money internationally and what barriers still stand in the way of its widespread adoption for remittances?

Depends on when the money transferred has been used. But if the destination still end up to be converted to fiat and withdraw it to remittance centers or bank I guess those Bitcoin transaction cannot still effect the traditional money transfer since those institutions still benefiting for each transactions made by people.

And actually don't see any conflicting factor towards traditional money transfer since after all  people cannot use Bitcoin directly to buy goods or basic things they need since they still need to convert it to fiat so that could buy everything they want or need.

Two systems would just coexist with each other, that's my take on it.
Nothing wrong with that, not every country in the world would be blissful towards Bitcoin, even in the years to come.
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Remittances are a huge part of the global economy but traditional money transfer services can be slow and expensive. Bitcoin offers a faster and more cost effective alternative. Could bitcoin disrupt the remittance industry and become the go to solution for cross border payments? What are the potential for bitcoin to change the way we send money internationally and what barriers still stand in the way of its widespread adoption for remittances?

Depends on when the money transferred has been used. But if the destination still end up to be converted to fiat and withdraw it to remittance centers or bank I guess those Bitcoin transaction cannot still effect the traditional money transfer since those institutions still benefiting for each transactions made by people.

And actually don't see any conflicting factor towards traditional money transfer since after all  people cannot use Bitcoin directly to buy goods or basic things they need since they still need to convert it to fiat so that could buy everything they want or need.
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In cross-border transactions, bitcoin is the best solution that can be used by people to send their money to other users more easily, securely, hassle-free, and with lower fees. But even so, each person may have their own options for cross-border transactions, some prefer to use paypal, bank transfers, or other payment platforms. The reasons can vary depending on how they understand bitcoin, because there are some people who don't really believe in bitcoin, or they think it's still complicated, or lack of knowledge, but usually it's about regulatory issues that make people reluctant to use bitcoin in their cross-border transactions.

Yep. And it depends on how many times a person would need to do the transfers.
If it's a lot of times - Bitcoin may not be suited for the needs of said person, but if he needs big transfers of value and not too frequently - Bitcoin would be the choice.
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In cross-border transactions, bitcoin is the best solution that can be used by people to send their money to other users more easily, securely, hassle-free, and with lower fees. But even so, each person may have their own options for cross-border transactions, some prefer to use paypal, bank transfers, or other payment platforms. The reasons can vary depending on how they understand bitcoin, because there are some people who don't really believe in bitcoin, or they think it's still complicated, or lack of knowledge, but usually it's about regulatory issues that make people reluctant to use bitcoin in their cross-border transactions.
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Remittances are a huge part of the global economy but traditional money transfer services can be slow and expensive. Bitcoin offers a faster and more cost effective alternative. Could bitcoin disrupt the remittance industry and become the go to solution for cross border payments? What are the potential for bitcoin to change the way we send money internationally and what barriers still stand in the way of its widespread adoption for remittances?
Bitcoin blockchain provides more secure remittance method than traditional methods like bank transfers but it does not provide faster solution.

Bitcoin and traditional methods, future methods will exist together. Bitcoin won't kill traditional methods or future methods and other methods won't kill Bitcoin. It is a free society and world where people have freedom to choose their favorite methods and Bitcoin is one of their options. It can be most favorite for some people but it is not favorite choice with others.

The bullish case for Bitcoin.
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When I was abroad working, I used to send money to my family back in my home country in Bitcoin. There were pros and cons, of course. But I realized that the features Bitcoin offers are optimized when large amounts are involved. Most especially if the remittance is going in or out of a sanctioned country or done by a sanctioned company or personalities, one can really exploit Bitcoin's design. It's global, borderless, censorship-resistant, seizure-resistant, and so on.
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Remittances are a huge part of the global economy but traditional money transfer services can be slow and expensive. Bitcoin offers a faster and more cost effective alternative. Could bitcoin disrupt the remittance industry and become the go to solution for cross border payments?

this question was asked over a decade ago.. and back then the answer was yes..
however the core devs messed with bitcoin just enough to change that answer to no.

What are the potential for bitcoin to change the way we send money internationally and what barriers still stand in the way of its widespread adoption for remittances?
core devs messed with bitcoin purely so they can have their sponsors of the messy alterations create subnetworks to steal the "remittance" business opportnities of bitcoin, for middlemen payment processors of subnetworks via their promotions that anyone sending under $1k should use a subnetwork and not the bitcoin mainnet.. the issue though, is these subnetworks are not made to be straightforward to self-setup, they are not bug free, nor be easy to be in self control of funding and remain viable. heck even the peg of mainnet currency to subnet units are not guaranteed, so alot of things have gone wrong with such a opportunity that existed over a decade ago
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Remittances are a huge part of the global economy but traditional money transfer services can be slow and expensive. Bitcoin offers a faster and more cost effective alternative. Could bitcoin disrupt the remittance industry and become the go to solution for cross border payments? What are the potential for bitcoin to change the way we send money internationally and what barriers still stand in the way of its widespread adoption for remittances?
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