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Re:Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:04PM (#26499044)
Zelle disrupts central banks more than Bitcoin in Venezuela.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-11/zelle-has...

"I lived in Venezuela. Almost no one uses crypto or cares about crypto. The fees to send bitcoin alone represent a sizeable chunk of money to most Venezuelans."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/jsw96e/zelle_has...

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Re:Visa Plans to Enable Bitcoin Payments at 70M Merchants by runako on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:41PM (#26499233)
It looks like a single BTC transaction currently costs >10% of the average monthly income in Venezuela!
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