Topic: A working cryto debit card? - page 5. (Read 2006 times)

I have a virtual advcash card and waiting for the plastic to get delivered.
The experience with the support was quick and good - they were helpful.
You don't load the card directly you fund the account. The account can contain only FIAT and you have actually a number of FIAT wallets (one for USD, one for EUR, one RUB and you can add a few other currencies too GBP, ..).
You can fund the any time from these wallets and each funding costs 1$ (for USD card). If you are not verified you can fund only 100$ at once (250$ total, I think).

Funding the FIAT wallets from your Bitcoin wallet is done 99% the same way you'd buy a product with Bitcoin (at least from my experience) : you pick the amount in USD/EUR/whatever, they generate for you the number that means the amount of Bitcoin to be sent to a certain one-use wallet in a specified time. When the transaction is sent, you are OK. After 6 confirmations you are funded. If you send from exchange or web wallet you may miss that time frame and then they don't guarantee the amount of FIAT you'll get (at least it's not lost).
Now the tricky part. That amount of Bitcoin you have to send will be bigger than you'd expect because they use their exchange, which is clearly worse than preev. More than that, they charge for you a "gateway fee", which in my case of funding was about 10$ (not as bad as Mistertango, still far from great).

I made a few payments with that virtual card. It is a Wavecrest (yes, lol) Mastercard, but it works.

Thank you for the info.
Seems that your card has arrived rather fast. Hope my will too.
Xapo had the best option to my opinion. You could keep your coins in their wallet that was directly connected with the card so you didn't have to upload the card, pay the fee and the funds were always available. It was very convenient to use, hope they will find the new provider soon and keep that concept.

Just got my advcash. Took 9 days, sent on the 10th of jan using their free shipping option. Is a mastercard, issued in gibraltar.

Will use in a couple of days, you're supposed to load it with bitcoin. Can't keep bitcoin on advcash wallet and load it at a later time, they don't have a btc wallet there, only usd, gbp, brl, eur.

You already have Advcash card or just planing to order it? I would like to know the experiences.
Also, is card directly connected to wallet ther  (like Xapo) or you have to fund it extra? I have already ordered Mistertango but I don't like those comments about poor support and maybe it wouldn't be bad to have multiple cards to use them depending on occasion.

Still no reply from Mistertango and I think I ll be definitely not ordering a card from them. I can understand they re swamped with users but 4 days no reply is big NO.

On the other hand, Advcash support s been lighting fast, I m talking responding in just hours after I d ask a question.

Thanks for the detailed info. So top up from other exchanges doesn't really make sense.

I visited the exchange's ANN thread, I even discussed about the fees there, but I failed to understand their explanation why they charge for deposits 1% but not less than 0.0025 BTC "due to huge recent networks fees", since the sender (which is myself) pays the network fees already. And that minimum 0.0025 BTC is imho quite a lot if you don't send big amounts.

Thanks for this update. Not sure what's happening behind the scenes. Probably flooded with registration requests now that Wave Crest died.

I better load my Mistertango account with small BTC amounts only. I would hate to be stuck with unresolved issues for days or weeks without help from their support.

The IBAN account is funded by SEPA or SWIFT. If using either method and if the source or sending account is not the same person named on the Mistertango account, they might ask questions about the transferred funds, especially if it is a really large amount.

You can also fund the account by sending bitcoins to the dedicated BTC address linked to that account. If you go to settings, you will find that address. It's a static one and doesn't change, although you might be able to request a new address (not sure about this). My address has been the same from day 1 of opening the account.

Bitcoin transactions on the IBAN account are linked to this exchange:

http://btc-exchange.com/

Any coins you send to the linked BTC address are traded at best possible rate on that exchange.

I think they changed their fee system. Check their ANN thread.

I used to use an ANX debit card. Their card is currently not available, apparently will be this year. Maybe next month or so. Pretty good overall. Dunno if they discriminate based on nationality. Most appear to discriminate. I just recieved a SHIFT card. Uses a Coinbase wallet. Haven't tried it yet. Only available to US citizens or residents.

They are probably drowning in support requests.

You have to take into account that more than one hundred thousand debit cards were
shutdown after the WaveCrest news. Many people have probably made the switch to MisterTango,
because at the moment it is one of the few remaining options for a debit card that
can be loaded with BTC.

I think they will eventually give you a good reply if you are persistent.
Maybe you should post your questions in this thread, because active MisterTango users
might be able to help you out.

This is not nice to hear and it could be a significant problem.
But the truth is that many services have poor customer support, either they are very slow or they don't even answer and when they do you see that people who run the support don't have the clue about the topic.
I hoped that it's different with Mistertango.

Oopsie, this is quite a big minus.

I can say something similar about XMLGold.eu I waited patiently for an answer on bitcointalk and when they posted there, they completely ignored my questions.


I already know of advcash, thank you very much, but we were discussing about another providers now. You could have read up a little before ... posting.

I have not tried this you can try there with the advcash card buddy. It was around 10 USD initial time to buy a card. after some months it may get on for high price on the market. You can operate to the ATM machines and charges will be applied on it accordingly.
There are many people increasing the fees now itself but you are going to the card means you will have to pay charges and extra fund for using on the ATM and transaction charges too. So better using virtual wallet alone is a fine one.

I do have to say I m quite unhappy with Mistertango support, have sent them an email 3 days ago, they reply with completely useless info, I asked again and nothing since then.

If anyone uses Mistertango, I would be interested on how the funding of the card goes, since I've read that funding Bitcoin has huge fee.
Or maybe there's another solution (funding from 3rd party exchange?) I don't know of.

Wirecard is one of the most respected European card companies. If it s them, then it is definitely worth of checking it out.

Things might have changed since HostFat posted this link.


However, the final paragraph of that PDF says the card is issued by Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd.


This wikipedia page is about Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard

Do you what is the issuer of their card? Is see they re based in Lithuania.

See, another one who posts just from increasing post count. These signature campaigns really affect the quality of this forum.

I am going to register on cex.io. There is the possibility to make exchanges between Bitcoin., Ethereum and other common currencies like dollar. It is possible to transfer my coins to plastic card in real cash.