If it's really free and remains so, it'll be cool. Oddly enough, I'm in a tiny little niche market where there are a few folks who've had really nasty experiences with eBay, and hence refuse to do business through PayPal. The accepted alternative right now is they send me a check, but this thing looks like a good alternative.

This will be very handy indeed for a number of circumstances, for the low, low price of free.

Trust is a big issue though, people know paypal (mostly from ebay), merchants and techies know and generally trust square so getting that hurdle cleared will be a big deal.

I'll use it though for sure. An overseas option for cheaper than my bank (around $30 once everyone has had their slice), competitive with Xoom and I can see a lot of expats using this.

Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6557394

I was going to look for the 3-5% fee and be snarky. Free. OMG. done done done. For as long as it's free to .5% holy sheet.

Where did you get the .5% figure?

Really valid alternative to Venmo (soon to be owned by Paypal through the Braintree acquisition)

Seems to be USA only?