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In answered in another comment but usually for gambling or nefarious reasons.


To avoid delays with traditional money rails. Most usage is for DeFi (you’d prbly call it gambling) but I also know people who use it for remittances. Believe it or not, sending stablecoins internationally and off ramping at a foreign bank acc is faster / cheaper than using something like western union


In Europe we have now SEPA real time bank transfers. And they are really real time: less than 30 seconds. Also internationally




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