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It doesn’t make sense that you don’t want to pay FX rates but would happily accept the payment in Bitcoin whose rates fluctuate much worse. Some banks charge u
by pavlov 6y ago
It doesn’t make sense that you don’t want to pay FX rates but would happily accept the payment in Bitcoin whose rates fluctuate much worse.
Some banks charge up to 2% for currency conversion, but surely that’s better than the 10-15% lottery involved in Bitcoin? Unless you want to have a gambling aspect to your invoices.
- centimeter 6y agoI am not teetering on the edge of poverty so I would rather increase my volatility a tiny bit and stay EV neutral (or, more realistically, positive, since we’re talking about BTC) than incur a guaranteed substantial EV loss. My suspicion is that your mental model for comparing volatility and loss is incomplete, given that you didn’t mention anything about the size of the transfer compared to your wealth, or anything else about local risk-aversion/utility convexity.
- pavlov 6y agoSo you do want the gambling aspect because you’re not poor and you believe Bitcoin mostly goes up. That’s fine, but I don’t think it aligns with what most people want from their money transfers.
- centimeter 6y agoI don’t want it, but I’ll tolerate it given the benefits.