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I am talking about corporate settlement among businesses worth like a few millions dollars or more, as they transfer money to each other. Much of it is even international wire transfer, horribly slow and unreliable. And yet, the money movers (paypal, wise, banks) make a killing out of it, milking the swift system. And then, not to mention the political risk (as Chinese and Russian companies find out).
Is it volatility? Is it lack of liquidity? Is it competition from Tether (which recently blocked a $26 million wallet for no reason)? Or is there any other reason Bitcoin finds this market so hard-to-crack?
I deliver some coding lessons and consulting online, to get paid in Sats (although lightning).
Given my previous experience with some international transfer, any freaking day I would trust the Blockchain to move my funds more reliably than the banks (which always find an excuse to hold the amount, conduct one more round of KYC, ask for one more piece of paper blah blah) before they release my money for my use.
And I have noted multiple posts on LinkedIn even. E.g. a British guy was sending some money to start kind of venture in Namibia. His money was held up by Barclays that he could not unlock even after a month of emailing and yelling on phone. Barclays would hold the money (low six figure, in pound), neither send it, nor release it back to his whole account. I do not know the end result, but this is where he took to LinkedIn to vent his frustration. No, he is no Bitcoiner, was not talking about the solution, he was just blowing steam!
But that, among other things, got me thinking of Bitcoin as the perfect solution to this, yet apparently ignored by every business! Or does it just mean we are still early when some people (not ignorant slum dwellers, but glob trotting corporate jet setters) who could benefit the most are yet to figure this out?
Or are there already signs that Bitcoin is invading this market of money-transfer-business among corporations?
I guess people are like:
okay I have to find out about this scary technology or just continue to use what I already have, which everybody else uses, and which doesn't really give me much problems.
Something like that.
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Fax vs email?
Horse carriage vs automotive?
Steamer vs airplanes?
Did they all have something that somehow works on one hand and something scary, risky (and a lot of learning curve with something almost alien) on the other side?
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I know of companies that still use fax! People didn't switch quickly.
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These examples aren't comparable. They are all used by individuals within organisations, not by organisations coordinating with other organisations.
And despite that fax lasted for years, I'm sure it's still used.
For bitcoin to be used for corporate settlement you need to coordinate with and get sign off internally and externally, and there are always intransigent people, often at the top, who will block it.
Of course it's probable that Russian corporations today are using bitcoin for corporate settlement, since the sanctions would have provoked an environment for experimentations, but they've probably migrated to the Chinese payment rails since then.
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Totally. That's why it takes time to adopt. Not everybody is like you and me. We're at the far left side of the adoption curve and it looks pretty desperate from this point of view.
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I just got in to bitcoin a bite more than a year back, thought I am one of the late ones, the whole world already has it.
But i also asked this question because so many companies are apparently building bitcoin treasuries. They do business with each others as well, right? So if they are settling some amounts between them for services provided, then Bitcoin would obviously be the best choice.
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That's not true. Ask any person on the street whether they own Bitcoin and most will say no. Even worse, find someone who owns it and also understands it.
Owning <1% of your networth in orange coins is not adoption.
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