I would say doing the opposite of Ethereum is the most sensible option in most cases. At least they're out there taking lumps with their whacky ideas so no one else has to do it. Ethereum has the luxury of chucking a mountain of shit at the wall and if it all slides into a heap at the bottom there's enough nutters to club together and resurrect it. Bitcoin will never follow that model.

I'd be surprised if they weren't authorised. There was a large purge of Amazon resellers a while back and plenty either didn't return or took a long time to list them again.

My main place for Amazon cards is Giftoff.com and the availability there appears and disappears with great regularity. I presume they have to plead to get them back or fulfil some new condition.

Nothing happens during halvings. If there is to be an effect it starts in the following year. However at the moment I have absolutely zero clue what the future holds. It could be a disaster. It could be business as usual much earlier than expected.

When did the problems start and how long has it been dragging on for?

I've found support pretty useless but relatively quick to respond to enquiries on the occasions I got in touch with them. The only crypto card provider I wouldn't assume was radioactive is Coinbase. Everyone else gets treated with some wariness.

Get a normal job and buy it. Even if you live in a backward shithole it's more than likely you will get more Bitcoin for your time than slaving away trying to make it directly with some of the pitiful 'opportunities' out there.

You would hope so but there might well be something buried in their terms and conditions. They might try to claim the contract is between you and Amazon and all they did is provide a way of paying for the card.

Even then I wouldn't regard that as good enough and would expect some good will.

I hope the members from countries that are still accepted don't hammer the forum so much they get kicked out too.

People need to figure out that it's not a mindless money machine paying them. It's another bunch of people looking to a get a return, though I have no idea how. Their patience is not going to be infinite, and certainly not their tolerance.

I think it's done enough in the last few days to earn a permanent ban. Since its appearances have been sporadic I presume it's had temporary ones. If the hammer hasn't fallen for good this time then I will not be particularly impressed.

Each card has different conditions. It'll tell you whether it's online only or can be in store too on each card's page on Bitrefill. It's showing me UK only options and for groceries they're all saying they're in store. Some are in store only.

I'm not sure what form the in store usable ones take, they might be a code linked to a balance or something.

Someone still has to develop software. Users have to run that software to use the service. That's where a hacker can inveigle their way in. Decentralised does not in any way mean hack proof.

No.

Someone like Revolut will find something suspicious that an average bank will not. I've never met anyone who has had their bank account suspended. I have come across quite a few people who had their app based accounts tripped and shut down by some unknown algorithm.

If it were him he would've already come back with torrents of abuse to the first expression of scepticism. I presume OP simply wants to congratulate whoever gets in touch which is a lovely sentiment I'd like to see more of here.

Smoking has given me untold pleasure over the years and the biggest downgrade to my general well being has been quitting it. I have been diminished in every sense by stopping, apart from stinking less. Now I'm too mean to take it up again.

It's very unfortunate that seeking privacy makes you a marked man. If the base level of transparency that Bitcoin has was applied to conventional transactions people would be rutting in the streets and firing politicians out of cannons.

Solid advice.

A few months ago an Amazon package of mine arrived slightly squashed.

I paid a guy to smuggle in a .32 and 1200 phosphorous grenades from Bosnia. Was the next package damaged? I'll leave you to ponder that...

My policy is wait and see. I sure as shit did not expect a global pandemic that would vapourise millions of jobs when touching myself to the price in the past.

Nothing operates in a vacuum. If the world economy is a smoking crater next year then I do not believe 'this is good for Bitcoin'.

Why's this in a Bitcoin forum? You can't do anything Bitcoin related with Revolut other than purchase a price ticker that may or may not be linked to some actual coins.

Revolut have consistently proven to be a bit suspect. I've never kept more than £10 on there for buying things like drinkies at foreign airports. If I have to tie up money with people it goes to those who give me a fighting chance of reaching an actual human.

I guess it's conceivable but all Google have done is shunt the existing info to a different place. No need to renew it or ask for anything. All they did is inform us it was happening. If that's what they're doing then it's good enough for everyone else.

My Kraken verification is about six years old now. They've never asked for anything more. Same for Coinbase.

I'll see if they do the same to me and ponder what to do. The app still takes several minutes to use so I might use it as an excuse to bin it for good.

That doesn't ring true to me.

Many of the startup banks are nothing more than clients of the real banks. That makes them doubly desperate to stay in their good books. An established bank may give you the benefit of the doubt whereas an app based one will shut you down instantly for the slightest infraction.

Their lack of competence in general reflects the speed of their growth.

I don't trust any of them and I wouldn't run my life through an account like that.

Revolut have done this too. I emptied my Revolut account and deleted the app. They never gave me warm feelings in the first place.

I keep my Wirex account on a tight leash so if they sprung anything on me I wouldn't be in the lurch. I'd like to know the thinking behind it. I do not have a great deal of tolerance for it.