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Topic: Why dont use credit cards? (Read 1056 times)

legendary
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June 10, 2011, 11:30:07 PM
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But maybe Visa and Mastercard don't want to deals with bitcoins?

Yes, for two reasons:

1.) They don't want you to speculate using their money.

This is the same reason you cannot add money to an E-Trade account using Visa and Mastercard either.

2.) Bitcoin is not only a formidable competitor to them, it is is more likely something that will be eating a good chunk of their business.  The longer they can avoid competing with Bitcoin the better.

That being said, it is doubtful Square will know for what reason you swiped a credit card through your friend's iphone, for instance.  So they likely aren't stopping it from happening entirely but they are keeping using credit that way to a manageable level.
full member
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June 10, 2011, 07:06:13 PM
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Stolen credit cards, for one thing.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1442.0
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June 10, 2011, 06:49:58 PM
#1
I understand that paypal is frowned upon for buying bitcoins.

But why they can't sell bitcoins with credit cards directly?

Just implement a gateway payment on mt.gox et voila....

But maybe Visa and Mastercard don't want to deals with bitcoins?
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