I agree it's not (yet) a stable currency.

It is tougher when California or similar will take reduced yields to purchase and do not have the currency conversion loss the Canadians do.For me to work with foreign clients these days they have to have researched all the taxes, withholding,financing,return issues and be realistic about the numbers.

So a 14 trillion dollar economy in the US plus the global economy will overnight switch to crypto currencies that are backed by anonymous hackers somewhere?

And currency from Rands to USD.

I can easily get that here in the US without the political and currency risk.Now if you could show I would have 10% yield with a likely 100% valuation pop in a couple years, that gets more interesting.

We watched the pound to dollar rate, and we transferred the funds when the currency was in an advantageous position. 

They may not.They will be required to fill out a CTR (currency transfer report) as it is over $10,000. 

@David Flores in my opinion if your goal is to sell any property at 50% of market value just work backwards from there on how much you would like to make. in your example of this property lets say you wanted to make $5,000. that property would have to retail at $34,000 in order for you to sell it at 50%($17,000) pay the $10,000 in liens and pay the owner $2,000I think everyone is going to be different on what they think their time is worth so if your happy putting up $12,000 for liens and purchase to make $3,000(25%ROI) because the market value is $30,000 then do it at the end of the day you have hungry new investors willing to make a $1,000 and get some education then you have pros that won't do a deal for less than $10,000. you just have to decide what your willing to accept both in monetary and education because both are currencies in the investing world@Brandy Horkey I second what you've said, I know in Florida that the county appraised value is strictly for tax purposes and not what the actually market value for a property is.

Ethereum, which has a practical business application in that it provides a platform to build decentralized applications, which is THE GOLD MINE BEHIND BLOCK CHAIN, as opposed to Bitcoin which is simply a currency).All that said, that's just my opinion (strongly based on my work experience and research) and the future could prove me dead wrong.

Basically, I need to transfer a big amount of money to the states, and convert it from the currency we use here (New Israeli Shekels) into dollars.I was wondering if anyone here at bigger pockets has experience or advice how such a thing could be done safely and cheapest as possible?