Get in taxi. Driver is on the phone with Western Union clearly frustrated. They go back and forth for 20min. Brutal call. Finally it ends. Driver tells me this happens weekly. He sends $100 to Haiti every Friday but it rarely processes so he has to call. Western Union charges him $10 for that transaction. Then once a month he send $500 to Florida. For this, Western Union charges him $70 (!!) Insane! Highway robbery if you ask me. Cannot wait for stablecoins to crush Western Union. Don’t let anyone tell you that cross border payments isn’t an interesting use case.
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