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Banks being banks

Today we will comment an event that happened at 18th June in Brazil. The Animal rights activist Luísa Mell received a donation of 50€ ( R$284) from a person that lives in Europe and the moment he converted to reais for the purpose of buying things for animals she saw his account having a negative balance. **The bank applied a fee of R $ 300 to exchange euros to reais, leaving the account with a negative balance of R $ 16 (not even in the Donation description, the bank stopped applying these exaggerated rates).** This is one example how the banks ended for taking money from us without our consent. **When the bank simply received the exchange request, it did not inform that a fee of 300 reais would be applied (a higher rate than the converted amount of 284 reais).** If there were doubts that banks are not transparent in their rates, here is a great example of that. That is why cryptocurrencies will become increasingly important: there is clear transparency on the rates applied and everyone can consult the blockchain data; the transfer rate is not decided by some people who have power, but programmatically by the network taking into account some factors.; if we want to consult the average rate at a given time, it is possible through an internet search; Conclusion, **if you want to make a transfer**, mainly international with different FIATs, to **someone else and be able to use cryptocurrencies**, because this way we **remove only intermediaries, saving us money from unnecessary and exaggerated fees like this.**

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