Ask:HN Best services for sending money abroad

3 points·kris-jagasia··12 comments

I'm based in Canada and pay people (in USD) in both Turkey and Brazil on a regular basis (developers). Would be interested to know what people are using to make international transfers at below Paypal / Bank transfer fees.

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For people that use bitcoin as their international exchange protocol, how do you get your head around the possible changes in Bitcoins value, especially if it's going to take you a week or so to do the transfer (by the time your transactions get processed/validate)

Bitcoin.

Then use localbitcoins to exchange to local currency. Most exchangers do the conversion very quickly from what I've seen.

sorry, forgot to post as reply, how do you get your head around changes (often volatile) in bitcoin value, when you're just using it as a money transfer protocol

https://www.dwolla.com/ seems interesting.

Tracking the "money transfer" tools at http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/money%20transfer

unfortunately, dwolla is US accounts only, Xoom, transerwise don't deal with Turkey, xe or Bitcoin may be the only options

unfortunately, dwolla is US accounts only, Xoom, transerwise don't deal with Turkey,

xe or Bitcoin may be the only options

https://www.xoom.com/ http://transferwise.com/

http://www.xe.com/xetrade/

Bitcoin. The cheapest and probably the fastest way.

thanks guys

www.transferwise.com

doesn't deal with Turkey unfortunately, looks like a kick ass product though

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