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I clearly need a referral to your bankers!



You like to be snarky but it is true, you have no idea what you're talking about and it's showing. Anyone with a wise.com account can transfer fairly quickly, this problem has been solved by consumer tools a long time ago.


Jesus. I was being playful so I didn’t have to be impatient.

There is a tremendous variance in both domestic and international wire transfer complexity. If you’re an upstanding white guy with KYC in place on two banks that know each other it can take place quite quickly, unless it’s more than $10,000 in which case you’re most likely going through some additional security audit. A text if you’re lucky, a phone call asking which 2 of 5 addresses you’ve held in the last 10 years, or just an unpredictable delay.

None of this is simple or consistent or Gaussian distributed, and to the extent that I oversimplified for brevity I apologize.

I don’t think you know nothing.

But you said I did, and if that’s your true opinion? Then you can fuck right off can’t you?


I'm sorry you live in a place where the banking infrastructure is behind that of many third world countries, but none of your claims have anything to do with technology; blockchains solve nothing here and never will.

If you want an unregulated workaround then sure, but most people don't.


I appreciate that it’s all but illegal to suggest that there might be some nuance to the whole Byzantine consensus/blockchain/cyber-money thing instead of just throwing rotten vegetables at it.

I don’t own cryptocurrency, I don’t stand to profit from anyone buying it. I find it interesting and not a 1-bit topic.

But it does tend to draw 1-bit people like hogs to a trough, and after the relentless gang-tackle by literally dozens of 1-bit minds for suggesting that there’s some substantially interesting subject matter here: I’m kind of in a place of: if you think my curiosity is not only misplaced but offensive, then fuck off and go do something more useful with your day.




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