Ask YC: Europeans, how do you protect against falling dollar in Adsense?

Re:Ask YC: Europeans, how do you protect against falling dol... by pierrefar on Thursday March 13, 2008 @02:23PM (#136144)

Depends what you want to do with the money. Personally, I set up a Dollars currency account just to host my AdSense cheques. Kindly, Google does not do electronic funds transfer to a currency account so I have to stick with long waits and delays.

With the Dollars not being exchanged, I'm building up a travel fund and not losing value (apart from US inflation). I go to the USA once in a while, and the earnings pay for pretty much everything I do there. World-wide, there are a few currencies pegged to the US$, so the money can be used for traveling to those countries too.

In short, you'll only have a problem if you want to use the earnings in Europe. Otherwise, you can be very creative with it.

A related note: I sometimes wish Paypal would let me link my US$ account to my Paypal account. That would make life so much easier.

Pierre

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Re:Ask YC: Europeans, how do you protect against falling dol... by nraynaud on Thursday March 13, 2008 @03:22PM (#136199)

Well, actually I'd like to pay my rent and live (in €) with this money ...

Will see if I earn enough to travel after breakeven (and I don't think I'm going to the US soon).

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Re:Ask YC: Europeans, how do you protect against falling dol... by pierrefar on Thursday March 13, 2008 @04:30PM (#136258)

I was afraid you were going to say that :)

One thing I forgot to mention in my original reply: if you keep the US$ as is, maybe you can use them to pay for online services like hosting and stuff. It would be neat if you could like a currency credit card to help that along.

Pierre

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