[ac29]

With the exception of Libya, Western Union supports transfers to all of those countries. Fees look like $3-7 to transfer $400.

Using crypto is unlikely to be much cheaper or faster for me - my salary is paid in USD, so if I want to transfer cryptocurrency I will need to convert it from USD first, which is neither free nor instant. The same problem likely applies to whoever I'd be sending money to in the foreign country - if they need money to buy food or pay rent, its extremely unlikely they will be able to pay in cryptocurrency.

[samhw]

Thank you. This hits at the essence of why “I can send money instantly!” is such an absurd argument.

It’s not money. You can’t use it as money. You have to convert it to money, at a loss.

If that counts as ‘sending money’, then hell, I can send someone an email saying “I promise to pay $100 to the bearer of this note”, and just hope that they’ll be able to exchange that for money at a reasonable loss.

[landemva]

They are different. And sending a FAX is not sending postal mail. And sending email is not sending a FAX.

Sending money as quickly as sending email is not the same as putting paper checks in envelopes in the postal system. Like free speech, bitcoin can't be censored if you hold your own keys. For some people, PayPal censorship and freezing accounts still works okay for them.

[CRConrad]

Fax. Or fax, when it's not at the beginning of the sentence.