I'm based in Canada and pay people (in USD) in both Turkey and Brazil on a regular basis (developers). Would be interested to know what people are using to make international transfers at below Paypal / Bank transfer fees.
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#2Bitcoin.
Then use localbitcoins to exchange to local currency. Most exchangers do the conversion very quickly from what I've seen.
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#4www.transferwise.com
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#6https://www.dwolla.com/ seems interesting.
Tracking the "money transfer" tools at http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/money%20transfer
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#7Bitcoin. The cheapest and probably the fastest way.
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#8thanks guys
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#9For people that use bitcoin as their international exchange protocol, how do you get your head around the possible changes in Bitcoins value, especially if it's going to take you a week or so to do the transfer (by the time your transactions get processed/validate)
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#10unfortunately, dwolla is US accounts only, Xoom, transerwise don't deal with Turkey,
xe or Bitcoin may be the only options