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Re:Silicon Valley Startups Awash in Dollars, Again (2007) by r00fus on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:13PM (#21244982)
I’m staggered that this is some scenario that isn’t possible before apps like Revolut.

While I did pay an interchange fee I could do this with my USD account numerous times in the past 20 years.

So is it just that you avoided slightly higher interchange fees?

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Re:Silicon Valley Startups Awash in Dollars, Again (2007) by mojuba on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:13AM (#21246111)
It's that I could do it while in front of the ATM when I needed it, and that there are no interchange fees. Revolut and a few others use the same average price for conversion both ways.
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