Topic: Ballet launching Physical Bitcoins! Loaded PURE Bitcoin... (Read 853 times)

Currently the product is only available in the United States, so we don't have any information about other countries.

Hi everyone,

Happy April!

We are gearing up for a public launch of the physical bitcoin "cards" (aka "Loaded PURE Series") later this month.

For the last four years, Ballet has been selling "empty" cold storage wallets... And now, buy selling "loaded" physical bitcoins to would-be investors, this is new territory for us!

We obviously are appreciative if the collectors community, especially all of you in this forum. However, for the long term success (and longevity) of Ballet, we cannot merely cater to collectors, and have to tap a broader market. This is the fundamental reason that we are shifting to selling bitcoin in physical form. (We will soon also offer buy-back service, where investors can sell their physical Ballet bitcoins to us, and we will send them the proceeds to their bank accounts.)

Our mission is to enable a greater part of the population to invest and HODL Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency), and that's why we started Ballet over four years ago, and that's why we are now shifting to selling bitcoin directly to consumers and investors, in physical and tangible form.

*** CALL TO ACTION ***

Come join our mission and help us make a successful launch of this new business:
Encourage YOUR OWN friends & family, to buy bitcoin as an investment, and buy it directly from Ballet (rather than using the traditional route of buying on an exchange and withdrawing it after).

Remember, even after you buy from Ballet, you can still directly transfer the bitcoin out of the Ballet cards, and onto whatever hardware/software wallet you prefer. There's absolutely NO OBLIGATION for you to hold your bitcoins in the Ballet cards, even though many people may choose to just leave them on Ballet until when they're ready to sell.

Please help us out! Buy some physical bitcoins yourself, and also refer your friends and family to:
https://bitcoin.ballet.com/


thanks,
Bobby

Are there any patterns you can identify regarding buyer country location?

almost all ballet cards ship from the US - the PRO ship from overseas - that would be my guess as to why.

please note - tomorrow is the last day to order a PRO series - for some odd reason they are discontinuing them.

Have a question for BalletCrypto regarding the PRO series: Why shipping is free for international orders and costs $25 for domestic (i.e. US) orders. Looks strange to me. Can you please elaborate on this? Thanks.

Debit cards have a higher success rate than credit cards, but still too many are being rejected. Feel free to give it try.

some debit cards/credit cards have issues with exchanges as well. people should not have any limits on their spending other than that they have to have it to spend it.

I knew there was an issue with credit cards purchasing crypto but whats the problem with debit cards? Debit card is whst you use on the exchange?

the people that have those type of cards wouldnt be wanting to buy these wallets - it would be cheaper to buy it on the exchange - these are the wallets for those without exchange accounts.

are the crypto debit/credit cards also affected by this?
i don't think so, because then you could e.g. use your wirex/binance/... card for the order to avoid this madness...

maybe so but last I looked buying Bitcoin is not illegal so banks should let people buy it if they want to buy it.

Well, the political climate for all of this is pretty shit at the moment IMO... Gensler sucks, the SEC sucks, the FED Sucks and ofc banks are just trying to keep up etc...

I imagine for Ballet, even obtaining an MSL in every state (if that was the case)? must have cost a shit-load, but if the major banks won't work with a major company because they have or are "branded" as "crypto", I suppose it does no real good.

I wonder if this moment is an inflection point on what the SEC and FED are doing, not necessarily banks because they are just trying to stay within the "law" which is clearly cloudy af right now in the USA.

We have Politicians trying to shutdown crypto again, and all sorts of other shit like CZ/Binance shit, the coinbase stuff, the unfinished XRP dilemma, ... The list is long.

another reason to say fuck banks - acting as if the people's money is the property of the bank. People should be able to spend their damn fiat any way they want.

good luck at resolving this.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for expressing interest in our latest product, Loaded PURE Bitcoin. Regrettably, we have encountered certain issues during the beta launch phase. Financial institutions are declining a substantial proportion of credit and debit card transactions on our website due to regulatory restrictions on the cryptocurrency industry.

We have observed that some of our customers attempted to make payments using credit cards, but unfortunately, their transactions were declined. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and kindly request that you consider placing your order again using ACH bank transfer if you remain interested in the product.

Thank you,

Ballet Team

Great Job! I only hear good things from Ballet. It is a little more expensive to buy prefunded pieces, but there are tons of people that will pay the premium just so they won't have to try to figure out everything to get into crypto. They can just buy a physical already funded. That is valuable to a lot of people. Thanks for providing a safe and reliable product for people to choose from.

  Ahh yes they did...forgot about that one....It does come out damn good in Bitcoin Orange. Again it would be more appealing to me as  collector to have BTC loaded directly loaded from a miner just like BTCC used to...but like MJ said, this is great for people who do not want to go thru the hassle of jumping thru hoops in getting BTC easily. Agree

they  did orange but as the plastic ones not the metal.

  If thats the case then its a great idea for sure. ALso wonder why they never did one in Bitcoin orange? Maybe for another time and another type of card?

   Just a suggestion I am sure other would agree Orange is a good color as well...cheers!

That is aim of Ballet... to make crypto easy. (Think that might even be their motto)
They are making it so that the average person can buy/get into crypto without having to jump through hoops.

I am a big fan of Ballet.  Like what you guys are doing.

Not sure I see a tremendous difference in buying these versus just the wallets and funding myself,  other than being able to buy with fiat without going through an exchange.  It's a plus for sure, but would like to have seen these in coin form just to be a little different from the self funded metal wallets.

I realize it would be hard to fit all of the various elements onto something the size of a coin, but maybe the size of a 1 oz gold or silver bar?

All good, just one reporter's opinion/preference.  Keep up the good work Ballet!