Countries where it’s easiest to turn cash into crypto?
Countries where it’s easiest to turn cash into crypto?
In my experience:
1.Turkey 2.Montenegro
In what other countries have you found it easiest to just show up and sell your cash for crypto?
Turkey, with it’s inflation issues is probably the easiest. There are crypto exchange shops on every corner in tourist towns.
In Montenegro there are a lot of Russians who are using crypto to take their money out of bear country and exchange it for Euro, so private currency exchange business is flourishing there. This is likely happening in all the ex Yugoslavian countries friendly to Russians.
Solid list tbh. I’d add UAE (Dubai/Abu Dhabi) because it’s probably the current capital for cash to crypto OTC… there are tons of offices and they’re used to tourists and business people walking in with cash, just compare spreads because some are pricey. Georgia (Tbilisi/Batumi) is another low-friction spot …. lots of ATMs and OTC guys and it’s a regional hub. What you said about Montenegro also kind of applies to Serbia, Armenia, even parts of Kazakhstan… whenever you’ve got Russians and expats moving money, OTC pops up. In Latin America you can do it in Mexico City and parts of Colombia or Argentina but it’s more P2P and USDT focused, not shop-on-every-corner. Two things to watch though… the places that are “too easy” sometimes skip KYC which is fun now but annoying later when an exchange asks for source of funds, and the tourist desks can charge 3–7% just because you’re there. For a few hundred to USDT, Turkey and Dubai are probably the smoothest right now.