Remember the VISA Bitcoin debit card disaster and the following fallout at the beginning of the year? Yeah, if you owned a Visa Debit card in Europe, issued by Wavecrest, you were affected. By now, most of us hopefully have been reimbursed all our lost funds. Myself? I temporarily lost a couple of thousand dollars on Bitwala debit card, but i have to give massive credit to Bitwala team for helping their users get it back as fast as possible.
What i liked most about Bitwala, was the ability to top up the card with Bitcoin already converted to fiat, without being subject to the Bitcoin volatility.
So, what options do we have now? Do not worry, you can close the 30 browser tabs, that you have open, in search for a new Bitcoin debit card. Coinvigilance.com has a neat updated table for us, of which cards are available and which will hit soon. Where was this table before!? Instant bookmark!
To see the full article, head over to their blog post here. But if you want the quick tldr, head directly to the Google Sheets table, that they have set up for us here and get the latest info. The table is updated as of March 7th, 2018.
So, what does that table tell us? If you are in the US, you can get a VISA, but if you reside in Europe, you are stuck with MasterCard, for now. To be honest, from the top of my head - i don't actually know the advantages of one over the other - feel free to let me know in the comments, if you are more informed. But at the moment, Mistertango and Bitnovo seem to be the only options for crypto debit cards in Europe.
While they have made it really easy and conveniant for us mere mortals, Coinvigilance team also points out, that everyone should do their own research as well. If you want to know more, head over to their blog and see for yourself. If you like, what they have done, give them a pat on the back in the form of a comment.
Thanks, Arman Van Bitcoin, for pointing this out!
Remember my security post about how scammers try to get to your keys with the simplest tricks and manipulation? If not, please immediately read it below:
Scammers have some new tricks to get to your cryptos + how to combat them
Well, apparantly the FUD that surrounds Binance in the last days, is dissipating and now Binance is out with a statement of their own. According to them, the hackers used the tactics described in my post, but luckily, the crooks didn't manage to get anything out of it.
Read the full announcment by Binance here https://support.binance.com
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