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It’s Saturday now in many places in the world. Can you move a few thousand USD between your two primary accounts at different traditional banks before Monday?
by slewis 5y ago
It’s Saturday now in many places in the world. Can you move a few thousand USD between your two primary accounts at different traditional banks before Monday?
- peteretep 5y ago... yes? Faster Payments for my GBP balances and Prompt Pay for my THB ones tend to take a few seconds and be free? Added bonus: both will confirm the recipient name, and if I truly, actually fuck up the payment, I can get the money back again rather than it disappearing into the ether. Finally: the money I have transferred is now available to actually spend on things straight away, without needing to then reconvert it to real people money with a sizeable cost.
- comex 5y agoDon’t know, I’ve never had any need to do that. But I can pay a merchant $50 by credit card without spending $30 in transaction fees or waiting 30-60 minutes for confirmations.
- Datagenerator 5y agoBitcoin Cash is the original and confirms in the next block for pennies.
- peteretep 5y ago«[Problem x] with cryptocurrency will be fixed by [new alt-coin] that’s just around the corner!»
- naturalauction 5y agoJust because the US has (comparatively) bad banking infrastructure doesn't mean most places do, most of Europe can do this and has been able to for years (though probably in EUR). This includes some cross-border payments. Instant payments should be coming to the US in 2023. See https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_faq.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_faq.htm
- maeil 5y agoAnd when you say "for years", it's really decades that this has been the norm for. In my experience it is the same in the more developed Asian countries, or really any high HDI country that is not the US.
- trophycase 5y agoOk, but you're not denying the fact that it's a use case. Why should I have to suffer because the US financial infrastructure is stuck in the 1930s? All technology becomes outdated at some point, if cryptocurrency is useful to me right now to perform basic financial operations how is that not a use case?
- peteretep 5y agoBut you’re not moving spendable USD between your own accounts when you’re transferring Bitcoin, so it’s hard to see how this is related to your use case?
- tebs1200 5y agoIt's trivial to do that in Australia. Is this still a significant challenge in the US?
- tdeck 5y agoOur two major bank-to-bank payment rails are the Automated Clearing House (ACH) and Wire Transfer. Both are "closed" on weekends for some reason. One could probably use something with debit cards like Venmo or purchase and hand off a cashier's check.
- ineedasername 5y agoYes: Many banks, at least in the US, are now open for limited times on Saturdays & Sundays. I can walk into one bank, get a cashiers check, and bring it to another bank, all with zero transaction costs. And possibly faster than Bitcoin, depending on the transaction fee I was willing to pay.
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- vineyardmike 5y agoTo help people in the US: Zelle can do this I think? PayPal probably too. The nice thing is that if your account is closed on the weekend, the thing you need to buy probably is too.
- toomanybeersies 5y agoHere in Australia I can transfer up to $10,000 between traditional banks faster than I can with bitcoin, any day of the week.
- randomhodler84 5y agoYes, and it’s also illegal to spend over $10k in cash in Australia. And there ain’t no government that can stop a person from sending infinity via bitcoin any day of the week. Even the ones that believes that the laws of math don’t apply there.
- randomhodler84 5y agoUpdate; this was cancelled in Dec 2020. Got very close, a jurisdiction banning cash tx’s. And that is why Cryptocurrency, non state money is important.