I've had my Shift visa debit card for a few weeks and am really loving making regular purchases with it. If you're not familiar with what a Visa Shift card is.. it's basically a Visa debit card that allow you to use your Bitcoin from your Coinbase account like you would a debit card.
So far, I've used it for gasoline, Starbucks, McDonald's, bowling, and a movie. The transactions always go through and there are no exchange fees or miner fees for the transactions. When I spend $5.87 at McDonald's for instance, Coinbase just sells $5.87 of Bitcoin at the current rate and sends it to Shift to cover my McDonald's purchase. It's very easy and a great deal when prices are trending up.
So here's my thought.... should I just throw buy bitcoin on coinbase from time to time and then use my shift card for just about everything I want to buy? Is anyone doing this????