Bitcoin onchain payments are still faster and cheaper than using something like Western Union.

The lightning network is even faster and cheaper than that.

https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1428429890957848591

(tweet text, also includes a video and some more info) "With @Bitnob_official's Lightning Network integration, we now have free, instant, non-reversible remittances of any size to and from the United States, Nigeria, and Ghana.

$10 in my US bank account became spendable NGN for @bernard_parah in seconds.

Monetary history."