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by shellfishgene 1035 days ago
They seem to be of most use to rich people who want to hide assets from the tax man by carrying the cash across the border to Switzerland. Probably doesn't work as well as it used to anymore though. A few years back I talked to a guy from norther Italy who said most people had a second bank account in Switzerland to hide money from the government.
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I mean nowadays sounds just like much less hassle to use crypto for this use cases.

Unless you have unclean cash to clean ofc