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April 18, 2013, 05:56:55 PM
#9
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?

Is in the second paragraph...

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customers could use their services to send and receive money transfers denominated in bitcoins

I still don't understand. If i want to send you some BTC i could just send it through the blockchain without paying extra fees to WU. Is it for people without internet then?
The way I read it, I walk into a WU office with fiat $$$ and want to send you the BTC value of said $$$, they handle the conversion.
*shrug*


Yes, just like centove said, you walk into a WU office and make a bitcoin transfer of desired value. Hope they will implement it like this otherwise I don't see usefulness either.

Then it will work more like an exchange than payment system. I actually think it's a good idea. For all the people that don't want the hassle of registering, becoming verified and wiring money to an exchange which takes days. This way you enter a WU office and have BTC on a desired adress by the time you exit.
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April 18, 2013, 05:46:29 PM
#8
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?

Is in the second paragraph...

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customers could use their services to send and receive money transfers denominated in bitcoins

I still don't understand. If i want to send you some BTC i could just send it through the blockchain without paying extra fees to WU. Is it for people without internet then?
The way I read it, I walk into a WU office with fiat $$$ and want to send you the BTC value of said $$$, they handle the conversion.
*shrug*


Yes, just like centove said, you walk into a WU office and make a bitcoin transfer of desired value. Hope they will implement it like this otherwise I don't see usefulness either.
legendary
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April 18, 2013, 05:43:56 PM
#7
In that case, you'd be missing out on the actual trading of Bitcoin; if you've ever used Gox, you would simply be making a "market order", and would purchase Bitcoin at the lowest asking price.  Not bad if you don't wanna fuck with exchanges, I suppose; I assume this is close to what Coinbase was doing before "sorry we're out of Bitcoin thank you come again"
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April 18, 2013, 05:40:54 PM
#6
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?

Is in the second paragraph...

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customers could use their services to send and receive money transfers denominated in bitcoins

I still don't understand. If i want to send you some BTC i could just send it through the blockchain without paying extra fees to WU. Is it for people without internet then?
The way I read it, I walk into a WU office with fiat $$$ and want to send you the BTC value of said $$$, they handle the conversion.
*shrug*
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April 18, 2013, 05:34:04 PM
#5
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?

Is in the second paragraph...

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customers could use their services to send and receive money transfers denominated in bitcoins

I still don't understand. If i want to send you some BTC i could just send it through the blockchain without paying extra fees to WU. Is it for people without internet then?
legendary
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Merit: 1003
April 18, 2013, 05:26:37 PM
#4
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?

legendary
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April 18, 2013, 05:25:08 PM
#3
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?

Is in the second paragraph...

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customers could use their services to send and receive money transfers denominated in bitcoins
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April 18, 2013, 05:23:46 PM
#2
But why would you need WU when you can send BTC anywhere?
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