1% is fair enough. I used them many years, until I got paid directly. Bitwage is really good. Important is that you got your BTC straight into your own wallet.
Is it really just 1%?
I remember they were double dipping. Maybe that was only for fiat other than USD though ... but it was a fee as well as a crappy exchange rate. Like how the remittance companies do it, where they force you to take something like a 3% loss on the exchange rate but not call it a fee.
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