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 I sent some lunch money to my friend's mobile money account in Togo, West Africa using Strike's Send Global. It took a couple days (supposed to only take up to 10 min) to go through, but still pretty crazy that it worked. My friend is pretty poor. I sent him $5 which should be enough to go and buy a few decent meals there. He doesn't know that bitcoin was used to facilitate the tx. Not sure if he even knows what bitcoin is.