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by danlugo92 1591 days ago
You find a great employee, he's in Venezuela, how do you pay them?

They have no access to Swift.

Western Union (didn't exist until a few years back) has like 20% fees.

Paypal effective total fees 20% as well.

Bitcoin? $0.30 to pay him/her, 0.30 to get the btc to his/her exchange and then cash out.