If you find the draw of Bitcoin hard to understand and are of the engineer bent, try this on: Bitcoin refactors money to be a service shared among all countries. Your money is no longer coupled to your nationality.
I find that the difficulty and relative cost of moving (even large) sums between countries is vastly overstated by crypto-currency advocates.
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Perhaps this is influenced by the fact that you lived in the UK for a time? I tried to do this (as did several colleagues of mine) and did not succeed.
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For example, I was not even able to open a bank account in several countries that I tried.
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The logistical difficulty is roughly the same, and the costs are only "high" for forex if you don't pay any volitility price in a BTC exchange.
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