What the crowd rated

The real cost of sending money home

Sending or receiving money across borders is part of everyday life for a lot of people, and the fees can add up. Tell us how those fees feel and how you usually move the money.

35%A bit much, but I accept itQuestion 1

38%Bank transferQuestion 2

Question by question

Question 1Pick one

When you send or receive money across borders, how do the fees feel?

A bit much, but I accept it35%336

I don't send or receive money abroad25%240

I use crypto or a wallet to skip them15%142

Fair for what I get14%135

Way too high11%106

Other (tell us)1%10

Question 2Pick multiple

Which of these have you used to send or receive money across borders?

Voters chose more than one answer, so these shares add up to more than 100%.

Bank transfer38%373

Digital wallet or app28%271

Crypto or a stablecoin25%243

I haven't done this18%175

Cash pickup or a money-transfer agent18%173

Other (tell us)1%10

Who answered, and how we count itSampling, free-text handling and full methodology969

Verified humans

969

Every ballot is one World ID holder. No bots, no repeat voting, no weighting applied.

Margin at 95%

±3.1 pts

Sampling error for this many ballots. The crowd is self-selected, so this is not a representative panel.

Written-in answers

Summarised into themes by machine, then reviewed. Individual responses are never shown.

Aggregate results from verified voters. Free-text answers are summarised into themes; individual responses are kept private and never shown. A read-only record of what World ID holders expressed in our polls — not VoxPop predictions, and not financial advice.

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