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That’s not helpful for the remittance use case.



That's just your privilege talking. If you were a poor El Salvadoran, you'd be thankful to the tech gods to wait a year for your bitcoin purchase to recover its value in order to dodge an $8 Western Union fee (and pay a bitcoin transaction fee.)


Also EXTEMELY unfavorable when you can be margin called.




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