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It totally depends on the source and destination of the transfer. My girlfriend's small art house cinema recently transferred money to pay a filmmaker for festival participation and the correspondent bank fee was something like 60 euros on a 100 euro transfer.

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Try Transferwise, those kind of fees are insane.

Just use Bitcoin? I mean I know people give it a lot of shit for some reason, but this is a perfect usecase for it.

Or Pirate Arr, or Litecoin

With Litecoin block generation halving in about 60 days soon it may not be affordable.

So instead of a 60 euro fee, they need to spend ~.5-1.5 hours walking the director through how to set up a wallet and how to turn the internet money into actual hard currency? For someone that isn't already familiar, using bitcoin isn't exactly the most user-friendly experience.

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