More Venezuelans used Zelle with dollars than crypto. I was able to donate dollars without issue directly to the Ukrainian government.
Crypto proponents trot out these edge suboptimal use cases as excuses to allow an entire global Ponzi scheme to continue, when the discussion should be “what mechanisms can be provided to support refugee value protection and transferring value to friendly nations under attack using existing fiat rails and the laws that protect users of them?” That’s not hard to do using existing systems, but crypto proponents are so wrapped up in the thought of their digital assets rapidly declining in value that it isn’t an option to them. “Crypto must be the way.” when the evidence is clear it is not.
Can a random Venezuelan sign up for Zelle? I needed an SSN if I recall correctly (in the US at least).
And yes, I've donated to the Ukrainian military through https://uahelp.monobank.ua/ , with a normal credit card donation. But these are slightly different things. One is a catch-all army account, which will probably take its time to percolate the money to whomever the higher-ups think needs it most. The other are grassroots initiatives supporting small divisions or local ter-oboronas (and yes, some of them are probably fake, but I don't think the majority is; it's a risk you take when you're funding anything). Neither replaces the other; in a war, there are things that the central government can do that a local volunteer bataillon can't, and vice versa.
You can send money to any Ukrainian bank account via SWIFT. This includes all personal bank accounts. A recipient needs to lookup the bank's SWIFT code and IBAN which can be non-obvious but working with crypto is also non-obvious. Fees vary as do crypto fees. Crypto is not a qualitative improvement here, it's just one option out of many with pros/cons.
Crypto proponents trot out these edge suboptimal use cases as excuses to allow an entire global Ponzi scheme to continue, when the discussion should be “what mechanisms can be provided to support refugee value protection and transferring value to friendly nations under attack using existing fiat rails and the laws that protect users of them?” That’s not hard to do using existing systems, but crypto proponents are so wrapped up in the thought of their digital assets rapidly declining in value that it isn’t an option to them. “Crypto must be the way.” when the evidence is clear it is not.
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