Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

Re:Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer by booyaa00 on Friday November 22, 2013 @03:45PM (#6783609)

What country are you in? In the UK bank transfers happen within a couple of minutes.

You can login to your bank, transfer money to someone elses bank, they'll login, and see the money.

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Re:Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer by dprice1 on Friday November 22, 2013 @04:05PM (#6783727)

My guess is the previous commenter is in US. There's an excellent episode of the podcast "planet money" which addresses exactly this question, and which also explains why the system in the UK is much faster.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...

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Re:Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer by csomar on Saturday November 23, 2013 @01:39AM (#6785482)

Nope. Third-world here. I don't think it'll take a couple weeks in the US.

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