Re: [tlug] Receiving money internationally

[Michael Paddon <michael@example.com>]

The Merge, when ETH will switch to proof of stake, will likely happen late September or early October.

On 31 Aug 2022 20:03, Christian Horn <chorn@example.com> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 06:36:00PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> Fees, time, and reliability.  My experience with transferring money
> from the US to Japan has been "of those three, choose none". ;-)
>
> Maybe direct-to-bank is the best compromise, but which bank is also a
> question.

Running danger we move a bit even more offtopic..
I bet many of us reading the thread were wondering about this.

We had crypto currencies mentioned already in the thread.  For me
personally the current proof-of-work based ones like bitcoin are
out of question for anything - we are already without proof-of-work
currencies running full steam into the climate crisis.

I wonder though how chances are that in foreseeable future
proof-of-stake currencies get wider adoption.  Ethereum is apparently
planning the switch in a few weeks - they did talk about that for a
while already, so maybe it gets shifted out again.
https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

Chris