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 My wife is a yacht broker in Europe. Every large payment from a buyer in EU to a seller in US is a nightmare recently. Correspondent banks just freeze the amounts ($0.5m or more) "to check for AML/sanctions evasion". I believe they just patch their balance sheets and earn interest, not even responding back to the sender until investigated. It takes weeks to get the necessary information to them via the sender's bank, because the whole system is crazily inefficient. They hire the dumbest employees in payments departments.  I hope the rich guys will get fed up with this bullshit soon and start using Bitcoin.  
 the cue is real 
 Geez. That's so retarding and retarded. 🙄 
 the more pointless bureaucracy you make the more pointless jobs you make for people too stupid to realize their job is pointless and the more taxes you need to take in to hire these people because the private sector won't suffer stupid in the workplace.

oops I said it out loud 
 Bitcoin fixes this. 🙆 
 make hijacked btc great again.
and buy yachts and airplanes. 
 We bought our boat/home six months ago using Bitcoin. Sold our old boat in 2019 using Bitcoin. Its got the best the easiest way to transfer value the worlds ever seen yet most still think it’s a scam! 
 It's mostly not employees or better. They are not stupid. They are scared. Scared by bank and bank is scared by regulators who issues huge fines for any "wrong doing" which by very wide definition of EU regulations can be basically anything. 
I had a chance to see a EU bank training for AML. Let's say I'm surprised there is any business going on... 
EU the leader in regulations 😍 
 Those are US/Canadian correspondent banks that freeze the payments, and charge ridiculous fees for their service to press a button. I was a head of international payments and documentary business at a global bank some 15 years ago. I know this kitchen very well... 
 Ah. Well I'm not that surprised that Canada is reaching heights of EU 😅