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Re:Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is acc... by aianus on Friday November 20, 2015 @01:20PM (#10602821)
You could send your cousin in Somalia $200 in BTC and he could withdraw it in local currency at the ATM down the street from his house. Versus paying Western Union 8% for the same thing.

(Probably not with this card specifically, but if there was a Somalian equivalent...)

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