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by rapidlua 1560 days ago
This is fake. Sells at 105 right now. Edit: I have an account in a Russian bank and can purchase usd at this rate right now.
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relix 1560 days ago
If that's fake, you can make an easy 50% profit by arbitraging it. If you are somehow practically unable to arbitrage it, then you just discovered the reason why the conversion rates are so different.
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waffleiron 1560 days ago
> If you are somehow practically unable to arbitrage it,

On the Wise page it says "Sending money to RUB with Wise is temporarily stopped." So yeah, that's why the rates are so different.

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extropy 1560 days ago
Could be that the marked is getting split because of the sanctions and internal prices are diverging.

Similar in Soviet times there was a special internal rate that was very disconnected from international.

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