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Why would you use PayPal for remittances?

Just one example, PayPal is also for peer-2-peer transfers

The World Bank provides a table of remittance fees to El Salvador.

MoneyGram is free if you do it to a bank account. https://imgur.com/a/6B5G2ax

Too bad 70% of the population does not have a bank acct there

That sounds like an easier problem to solve than tapping a volcano to mine Bitcoin.

Perhaps the President should focus on that?

> Perhaps the President should focus on that?

If his actual goal was to improve people's lives, perhaps...

Bitcoin gives them a free bank account. A bank account most can't have or afford.