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HI

I have been using Bitpay Debit Card for awhile now. I love the card, but when the company made withdrawing funds via the ATM no longer
available, they lost some serious cool points!!!

Can anyone provide me with a company that issues Bitcoin Debit Cards that WILL allow you to withdraw funds from the ATM please forward
the link/info....I hope to hear from you fairly soon. I am located in USA.

You can check this list (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DRbTeMCzb4UeXI0YlAzBxMc2u2i0cN_17Ql6eMngK6E/edit#gid=0). I don't think Shift's card is working anymore, Paycent is not that known so your best bet would BitPay's card.

Wirex is also an option, they allow to withdraw funds at ATM and I think they are available in.USA.
Hoewever there is a monthly limit and fee for cash withdrawal but they also have an option to transfer funds to bank account if that suits you.
Anyway, I think we don't have enough Bitcoin debit card providers on the market so I beleive this will change soon.

I don't think Wirex is the best option, there's been a lot of issues with people using Wirex debit cards. I've personally have had friends complain about the lack of customer service and also the glitch bank transfers that often arrive late, or get processed late. On top of that, they have really bad spreads which mean you are spending a lot of money.

I'd personally choose Bitpay, they seem to have decent support, but they've recently updated a lot of their KYC issues (added KYC for transactions over 2,000 USD), and it's only works for US customers.

If your EU, go with Wirex I guess, there are no other options, unfortunately - or set up a debit card yourself and sell BTC for bank transfers.

AFAIK, the MCO(crypto.com) debit cards are the best in the market considering their worldwide offers, small withdrawal fees and quality of the service. If you can download their app in the Play Store, you can order directly from the app. The USA and Singapore customers can order the Obsidian Black cards.
Wirex for the EU customers, Advcash has promises after the closed service of Wave Crest, Paycent has hidden fees (the BTC/usd exchange rate is lower than market).
Crypterium is my first choice but their card provider is the UnionPay, withdrawal fees are affordable, you need to wait for joining the card applicants list. Crypterium sends debit cards in batches as a Paycent.

I have never heard of this site, I have two questions:

- Are their cards sent to every country in the world?

- How long do they take to approve people's documents?

For a site that's literally called crypto.com, I can't believe I haven't heard about the card that much at all.

Their coin (MCO) seems to pretty healthy according to coinmarketcap - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/crypto-com, with a $50 million market cap, and $3 million 24 hour volume.

It seems to be available in most countries (USA, Singapore, Japan). I found in the recent article, it's available to 12 countries but couldn't find the specific countries.

KYC also seems to be manually done, and from reading the telegram chat, looks to take from a couple of hours to a couple days.

MCO was initially Mona.co. And iirc they had quite an ICO.
They acquired crypto.com at a later point, using a big amount of investors' money for it and making angry quite some of them.
So maybe the old name (Mona.co) would ring a bell. The old domain redirects to crypto.com now  ;)

I assumed MCO is pure vapourware. I've never heard of anyone reviewing a real card.



I wouldn't use Wirex if I had to involve banking in it. That's where all of the complaints are.

As a pure deposit crypto, withdraw or spend fiat it's been fine. I had to use support once for a minor problem. It was sluggish but got there in the end. I wouldn't want a serious problem.

You can check YouTube, there are some reviews. The cards were only being available for Singapore residents and as of last month, they started shipping to the U.S as well.

They don't have worldwide shipping, only Singapore and USA are eligible to use their app which is used for ordering the card.
Verification progress can take from a few hours to a couple of business days.
No chance for other countries due to strict verification.

The project is old and their service is a bit slow. Check this (https://thetravelintern.com/mco-card/) and this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDiXH4NuFQM) reviews.

Ah, I didn't know this at all. Mona.co does sound familiar, I remember seeing it as another debit card option, but it definitely didn't look as big as it is now, so it's come a long way.

Look like the domain was sold for 12 million dollars according to this  article (https://techstartups.com/2018/07/06/highly-sought-domain-name-crypto-com-sold-millions-dollars/), and the ICO raised 25 million. A pretty hefty price to pay.

I agree, most of the complaints I've seen are with long bank transfers and support not being able to give a clear answer to their questions, for crypto it looks like it'll be fine though.

MCO does look like another good option though, they've slowly started expanding from the looks of it, but look to be on an upward trajectory.

Any card company that has an ICO is automatically suspect in my opinion. You should be capable of making more than enough from fees without having to con innocent crypto virgins. Wirex's shit token downgraded my opinion of them significantly.

Monaco have been making noise for several years and have not delivered a great deal. I don't see how issuing a card takes that long or costs so much. Either you can do it or you can't. If you can't - bugger off and don't take my money upfront for the honour of being a damp squib.

Depends to be honest. I see 2 sides to this.

A situation where the company doesn't have enough capital to fund upfront costs (marketing, development) and therefore requires investments to start off. Look at Monaco as a good example, there's no way they would have enough thought about buying the crypto.com domain if they didn't raise 25mil via their ICO.

Another situation where companies shouldn't rely on constant investments to start their company, instead grow their company the old fashioned way, not by "spamming" marketing. Which I do prefer, it seems like the better way to do things.

I put some more research into Monaco, and it seems like what you've said is true, they've been alive for 3-4 years, and have only just opened up their cards to the US, whilst numerous other companies already do it.

If it were me I would've gone and got some real backing like a real business. It's not pie in the sky crypto bullshit. It's the type of thing that can make plenty of income immediately.

ICOs have wound up making most of these people look like dicks. Easy to say in retrospect but I'm pretty sure I would've felt that way at the time. An ICO piles on pressure and expectations.

I understand, when I used the wegecan card, they would send the card to any country in the world and their service was always very good, unfortunately I lost the mastercard card. Now that wegecan is no longer offering plastic cards, they give us the option to use this company: https://luxpin.co (https://luxpin.co send cards to any country in the world)

Has anyone here used this company " https://luxpin.co "?

Lack of information, the website is poorly explained. It isn't said if the card is Visa or Mastercard (you see an MC logo and it's only how you can guess) There are no fees listed and no explanation on ATM/POS/FX, and other fees. I verified all the website's pages.
Very high cost, $250 -$500 to pay for the membership and get the card. It may be cost-effective for the long term if there aren't any other fees on ATM and FX, but the price is expensive if there are.

I, personally wouldn't touch this website.

I have always come across Crypterium. I don't know if you are familiar with it. They have issued hundreds or thousands of debit cards already. I was just amazed at how their debit cards are reaching as far as Saudi Arabia, Jamaica, EU, Colombia, and other countries. They are UnionPay-based so you can make ATM withdrawals for as long as there's a UnionPay logo on it.

The downside though, if you are taking note of some feedback here, is that they started with an ICO in 2017 or 2018 I guess.

I am not in any way affiliated with them so you might want to check it out yourself. They have a pretty responsive chat support as well. 

Some useful links:
https://cards.crypterium.com/
https://twitter.com/crypterium

I'd agree, I'd much prefer getting institutional funding via the regular routes, over crowdfunding and running an ICO and going for a lot of retail investors, it's much less scummy and crowdfunding was pretty easy back then, basically, any project with a whitepaper and decent team was able to raise millions.

Agreed, it's harder to please your entire community of investors, then your institutional partners and any small problem instantly becomes gigantic and heavily publicized.

I don't trust the site, they have no information about their team, communities, or anything.

Yes, like others suggested try Monacoin cards or Crypto.com cards. They are presenting themselves as the next level of crypto adoption story so why not try them out? You can the cards that are being distributed in Singapore and US. For other countries you will have to wait and see.

I like crypto.com myself. Though I can never try their product being an Indian. Anyways, there was this other service provider that I want to suggest but I have no way of testing them out.
Polispay, can you or anyone else here try them out and let me (and others) know whether they are legit?

I don't think I can though. I have no intention of being the scapegoat here haha but yes, I'd highly appreciate if someone did check them out. From the looks of it their web design can do some serious overhauling, considering that it is the face of their company. Chances of it being a complete vaporware scam seem pretty high in my opinion. I'll let others weigh in on this.

@legendster, it's not yet available to the public.


@Zicadis, that's the first thing I noticed too, the site seems to be a work in progress considering that some information are outdated like the fees and limits and it still says Mastercard instead of union pay. I'm actually confused which info is still valid in their website, it's really a bad practice to put it in low prio.

The updated information are all in their blog it seems

Same for me, their shipping options are limited to those mentioned two countries. Their worldwide offers are attractive and to be honest, I have never seen all these combined features on single card. YouTube reviews are usually paid advertising, I also want to read the honest, constructive review by real reviewers who tried other cards as well as Monaco cards.

Their service doesn't look legit to me but trying it with throwing away small BTC will not be a bad experience. Travel based cards are issued for temporary use, the other similar services suit the needs better than mentioned site. By the way, I found that Nigerians manage the site after short research.

I would go for advcash , cool debit card ever exist so far ..

They have wire transfer SEPA
ATM withdrawal all over the world available
Bitcoin funding friendly
The fees fair enough

Everything in advcash is fit to me .