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Hello, years ago I think I watched on Youtube a video of an Enterprise that give you a debit card to withdraw cash and pay online service in internet. Similar like Payoneer but in this case you can withdraw your money with your bitcoins funds.
Is there any service that works now in 3rd world countries? (I am in South america) Many thanks!

Are you talking about BitPay? I think they have this kind of service which gives you to convert your bitcoin to Visa

Please refer to this link and see if this is what you're looking for : https://bitpay.com/card/ (https://bitpay.com/card/)

If so, read their feedback/customer review before deciding to use it.

Take a look at cryptopay.me, they require quite a lot of KYC, but they are probably the most adopted card, and they basically giving you a regular debit card that just drains your bitcoin balance every time you chose to use it.

There are other options however, bitpay does a great one if you want to just use an easy card, they aren't the fastest or most secure debit card though, and there are options like Wirex that are particularly good for EU residents.

Other options would include Crypterium, crypto.com and Bitwala have some great options out there, have fun picking the right one for you.

I'm personally a previous user of Xapo[1]'s debit card. I can vouch for it that it works well, as you don't even need to have fiat on the wallet. The bitcoin in your wallet is sold for fiat only at the moment you do a transaction with the debit card, which is a huge plus for me. I'm not sure which countries it supports though, as Xapo now doesn't support the country I'm currently in. Wirex[2] and Crypto.com[3](previously Monaco) is an alternative, though I don't know how good or bad it is.

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[1] https://xapo.com/
[2] https://wirexapp.com/
[3] https://crypto.com/

Maybe you are referring to bitcoin debit cards. Actually there are many bitcoin debit cards such as Bitnovo, bitstamp, bitpay, shift,Uquid, Wirex, Spectrocoin, Revolut and many more. But the problem is that its hard to find some debit card that is available in South America usually these debit cards can be used in USA and Europe.

This is only seen in fiat for now, although I know that we now have bitcoin atm around the world, which I am still yet to get the full way they all operate if it has to do with atm or just entering of wallet address, but I believe that for atm to have existed, then surely, there will be a corresponding debit card service for it.

I am only familiar with that of fiat and I would also like to know if we have any of such service, but I think before we can have all this established fully, most debit card issuer must have gotten the support of the government to do so, and that will be when cryptocurrency market has been regulated already and we have many companies that are no longer skeptical about the use Of bitcoin as much as we have many of them right now.

Well, that's what all bitcoin payment processors like Bitpay do anyway, although I admit that having an actual debit card with which you can do this is a huge advantage.  I'm familiar with xapo and have used one of their wallets in the past, but I didn't know they offered a debit card service.

These are great ideas, but I thought there was always a barrier that prevented them from being created or released or whatever.  I thought that Visa and/or Mastercard didn't want to provide this kind of service.  Obviously I could be mistaken since it sounds like they do exist.  Anyway, I wouldn't want one myself since I don't like to spend bitcoin and would probably end up with no bitcoins whatsoever if I had a debit card. 

Don't any of you worry about that, that you'll spend all your bitcoins if you can spend them so easily?  I guess I'm just a hodler at heart and I don't like watching my btc balance go to zero.

It also depends what country you are in, South America is a bit vague.
This has been discussed before:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1242788.920

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095217.0

-Dave

Sure, there are a lot of Crypto-currency related platforms that offer debit cards whether it be a virtual card or a physical one. Cryptopay offers Bitcoin wallets as well as prepaid cards. https://cryptopay.me/
Convert BTC into USD, EUR or GBP, send bitcoins to friends, withdraw at ATMs and shop anywhere with cards. Also WirexApp, The Wirex Visa card automatically converts more than 12 digital currencies and traditional currencies at the point of sale, letting you seamlessly spend your crypto and multiple currencies in real life, anywhere Visa is accepted.  https://wirexapp.com/global
 
  I haven't used any of these sites personally so be careful and remember to practice your due diligence by researching about these companies before signing up.

BitPay is the as the best as others already mentioned.
Another alternative is Xapo.

It looks like if your living in South America, the best 2 options you have are Bitwala (which operate in South America, per their countries), and Wirex which also operates in those regions (although I haven't used them before so no idea how good they are).

Er, not really. Bitpay's payouts and fees are just really bad and I wouldn't recommend using them as a payment processor, or dealing with them at all, they released first but haven't really made any improvements in the last 5 or so years.

Forget about bitpay they are shit and merchants should stop using them IMO, and go like xapo, though I'm not using xapo now so I can't tell more about the service they offered, just you need to do kyc thing for sure.

Well No, don't recommend that payment process that has a lot of claims and negative feedback.
Probably these services were offered good services.
https://cryptopay.me/ or this https://uquid.com. But ready for the possible KYC verification that usually has.

Xapo's been dead for many, many years now. Bitpay outside the US had the same card provider and has been dead just as long. It's still limping in the US.

It all depends on where OP is. There aren't any global cards any more. In the EU you have Wirex and Coinbase as the main options. In the US it's Bitpay but you can't extract cash with it any more.

Plenty of wallet companies offer a Bitcoin debit card, however most of these will not actually allow you to directly spend your Bitcoin at a store.

Instead, you'll need to access your wallet via your phone, exchange your BTC to USD or in your case South African Rand, and then you can use your card to pay.

Some of the major ones are found here: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-debit-card/

Be sure the check the list of eligible countries.

I am not use debit card for deposit my bitcoin balance, only deposit cash money in bitcoin local exchange account and invest bitcoin depend how much money I have, thank for update information with exchange market support using debit card for investing bitcoin. I will try check with exchange you recommendation where purchase bitcoin using debit card for investing.

Sure you need a wallet?? I heard that Coinbase has similar cards.

I haven't used any such service myself but as far as I know there are most popularly two issuers who issue such types of debit card. One is Bitpay which also is a bitcoin transaction gateway provides direct selling of crypto at the time of payment through card while another is XAPO which too is becoming pretty popular these days. Both are pretty much secure and I haven't seen a single proven scam accusation against them. However I think they are limited to only certain countries. You can register here at https://bitpay.com/card/ and see if this is available in your country or not.

What you are looking for is Xapo wallet my friend.
Xapo has been tried and tested by me personaly but I had to switch of wallet for some security reason but trust me Xapo services is good and won't disappoint you in the long run, I've been using xapo before for 5 months and everything goes smoothly and no problem at all.

The Xapo card has been dead for nearly two years with no sign of another on the horizon. Either you have no need for one and have never bothered to check or the CEO fancies you and has been buying stuff with his own card for you.

A perfect example of people giving wrong advice, (but since they absolutely need to post something...) Possibly, they never used the service before, otherwise, they would be aware already.
How can you suggest this website? The Xapo card stopped about 2 years ago when the Issuer, Wave Crest Holdings, was forced by Visa to close all its Visa programs/cards

Edit:
Here is the announcement https://blog.xapo.com/xapo-card-closure-update-and-whats-next/

in times of technological development like now many companies have launched cryptocurrency debit cards to make it easier for us to conduct transactions such as one of the Bitpay and Wirek companies, both of these companies are very popular nowadays and many people have used debit cards and bitpay is one of the companies in North America whereas Wirex cryptocurrency debit card based in london.

So far now we do have some companies who have launched crypto debit cards, there were also some aspiring project who would like to have crypto banks as they know that it will be the future, it may take some time and needs a lot of deliberation for the approval from the government, but still this will eventually approved in the upcoming years. It won't be hard for now as Bitcoin has been here in this world for 11 years so adoption is ongoing and it is going well.

I think there are several bitcoin wallet companies that are still offering cryptocurrency debit cards such as Xapo, TenX, Wirex, EntroPay, Bitwala, Bitpay, Crypto.com, and many other companies out there. But the issue is to get cryptocurrency debit card these days you must undergo KYC/AML protocols yet some KYC procedures are very annoying. 

Bitpay and spectro coin wallet where doing the such solutions for the cryptocurrency users. They have the online wallets, debit cards and API gateway also to receive the funds.
Most of cryptocurrency eCommerce based projects are having the payment gateway with bitcoin and ethereum integration. So you check them and share your review. Recently I didn't try them so you may check share about it.

In 2017 while I was very new to cryptocurrencies, I came across Xapo app. This is an application that can easily be downloaded and installed on your phone for all the great experience that you would wish for especially when it comes to debit cards.

No I don't, I don't know which one exchange bitcoin market wallet give debit card because I never use debit card for every my transaction, I live in village where not available using debit card because almost transaction only use cash money. For depositing my money to buy bitcoin and altcoin I use cash money and transfer to my bitcoin exchange local wallet.