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Title: 2013-03-08 injapan.gaijinpot.com A Vehicle To Avoid International Fees
Post by: Piper67 on March 08, 2013, 08:51:50 AM
http://injapan.gaijinpot.com/live/banking-investments/2013/03/08/bitcoins/


Title: Re: 2013-03-08 injapan.gaijinpot.com A Vehicle To Avoid International Fees
Post by: Spekulatius on March 08, 2013, 10:12:26 PM
TLDR?


Title: Re: 2013-03-08 injapan.gaijinpot.com A Vehicle To Avoid International Fees
Post by: nevafuse on March 08, 2013, 10:29:59 PM
TLDR?

The author explains how to use a few bitcoin exchanges to save a few percentage points when transferring between currencies & banks in different countries versus using a wire.


Title: Re: 2013-03-08 injapan.gaijinpot.com A Vehicle To Avoid International Fees
Post by: Merralea on March 08, 2013, 10:41:48 PM
TLDR?
Website is the "biggest online portal for foreigners in Japan, providing jobs, apartments, community, classifieds, news and more." 2.5M page views/mo, 300K unique visitors/mo.
The article is a semi-step-by-step of how to use bitcoin to transfer from JPY in Japan to USD in a US account without the usual 4000JPY (~$43) fee. Method is MtGox>CampBX>Dwolla>Bank.