transferring money oversees question

[Gaaara]

i guess my question is, is bitcoin really a good option here and what can be done to make this process easier and better ("in general" not just in this particular case)?

YES!

Of course owning bitcoin presents a few barriers to entry but those barriers have gotten significantly easier over time, it's quite easy to buy Bitcoin now. The trick is to open a wallet and become verified with the exchange first so that when you really need to exchange money you can do so quickly.

What currencies are you planning to transfer from? If it's USD or EUR or GBP you could get Wirex, which is a bitcoin debit card option.

Finally, everyone should own some Bitcoin...it's literally the only currency available today that doesn't lose it's value each day due to deflation of purchasing power.

You say yes but did you think how the recipient will cash that bitcoin amount out so that he can get money? Bitcoin is a flexible transfer asset between bitcoin users but real world money is not included there?

It is somehow true that bitcoin only works best between bitcoin users, but as I experienced there is a chance that it can be better using bitcoin to transfer money overseas, like in our country, if you use the wallet that features a withdrawal of bitcoin without any fee transfering money from other country is a good choice then as you or the person you're about to send can withdraw it instantly after sending some bitcoin, so still bitcoin can somehow be better regarding fiat, but it only happens in some cases so there is no assurance though.

[merchantofzeny]

Making a wallet is easy anyway. Transaction fees are higher now as some people complain but I suppose it's still tolerable for sending money abroad, considering all the fees for traditional transfers. I think most of the problem would be on the cashing-out side. Exchanges can have quite a high spread so if the sender bought bitcoins solely for sending them, the receiver would be getting way less when he/she cash out (assuming he won't hold on to it a bit). Not to mention the fees when cashing in/out.

[JL421]

Using bitcoin for transferring money is extremely fast and really cheap but the problem is if someone wants to transfer funds but he doesn't have bitcoins it can be expense because i have noticed to buy bitcoins normally a fees of upto 15% is charged but if someone slready has bitcoin transferring funds overseas is surely cheap

[Amevalentine]

i saw a topic the other day (not here) asking about a way to send money from another country to where i live.

the easiest, most secure and cheapest way possible.
the amount was about 20,000 £

so naturally as a bitcoin user the first thing that came to my mind was bitcoin.
it is the easiest, it is super fast, and it is 100% safe if you follow a couple of safety measures, and it is super cheap!

but i didn't suggest it because of one problem:
i already have bitcoin so if i want to send money i just go to my wallet and click send
but for someone new, he has to go to an exchange sign up, deposit (pay fees), buy (pay fees) then send and the other person on the other end has to do the same or find someone to sell bitcoin p2p and that usually is under market price.

i guess my question is, is bitcoin really a good option here and what can be done to make this process easier and better ("in general" not just in this particular case)?

bitcoin make transferring money simple, but how to convert it from btc to cash, it is based on destination country receiver.
if there were many exchanges on country receiver it doesn't matter to convert it to some of them, with splitting the amount to withdraw in 5,000£/each.
exhanges need your id to upload, it doesn't matter for me as long it is clean business money, there is not to worried at all

[vennali]

Generally speaking, I feel like it is expensive but still competitive and also depends on the country you live in. Looking at the accessibility +fees to trader+ selling btc. the fees from fx would come out to be similar. The advantage here is that you know for sure that the money has been transferrer to the account(within secs) but I'm not sure when you wire money to someone if it is that quick and reliable.

[eaLiTy]

When it comes to sending huge amount of money,bitcoin is the best option you got because it is the cheapest way to send large amounts of money,since he is new to bitcoin ,what he has to do is to sign up with an exchange and verify his details according to the KYC procedure and then he can cash it out.

[cjmoles]

In the age of digital currency it's no different than transferring money next door. If the government wants to have some issue with it they're going to have some issue with it no matter what you do. Make sure that you're conducting honest business, conducted an honest manner, and you will have no problem.

Transferring the bitcoin is no problem. The problem presents itself when trying to exchange the bitcoin to the native currency in the region where tender is required.  It's easy to transfer bitcoin from point 'A' to point 'B' but it's not so easy to exchange the bitcoin for a currency that will allow a real world transaction to be conducted.  However, there are debit cards that are syched to a bitcoin wallet that do the conversions automatically....so, there are solutions.

[squatz1]

If you're going for a time specific thing and you can't count on the exchanges to come through very quickly, then Bitcoin wouldn't be the best option here and it'd be in the best interest of the person who's sending money to simply avoid it. If it isn't time specific and you'd like to save money, then go through some of the loops that come with Bitcoin and you won't be setting yourself back as much money as a place like WU (Western Union) would be as they charge INSANE amounts of fees.

In the age of digital currency it's no different than transferring money next door. If the government wants to have some issue with it they're going to have some issue with it no matter what you do. Make sure that you're conducting honest business, conducted an honest manner, and you will have no problem.

If the government wants in, they'll key themselves in with some sort of law to force the exchanges -- they just don't see Bitcoin as that much of a threat yet, but it will happen at some point.