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by wiremonger 1314 days ago
We regularly wire our overseas suppliers > $100k. Costs $40 per transaction. Zero paperwork. Takes several hours for them to receive.
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With Bitcoin: Costs $0.4 per transaction. Zero paperwork. Takes several minutes.
For our purposes (and most businesses), those are marginal improvements. And there's absolutely no way the very significant risks involved with handling cryptocurrency are worth it to us.
And you lose the right to effect any chargebacks if any errors happen anywhere in the process, including mistyping the receiver address. I would happily pay 0.04% for such a powerful insurance.
Are you sure you can charge back that bank transfer? In theory sure, but in practice?