Free Bitwala debit card... for the price of your ID?

[Decoded]

http://about.bitwa.la/get-the-bitwala-bitcoin-debit-card/

To get a free debit card, you have to verify yourself to lvl 2, aka sending them your ID. Is it worth it? It's probably still a cheapo mychoicecorporate card.

[OmegaStarScream]

Even if some people don't want to admit it , everyone should understand that both exchanges and debit cards services defeat the whole purpose of using Bitcoin in the first place because they ask you to send your real information's while you are probably using Bitcoin because it's anonymous .
So , It really depends on you and you only (and how much you care about your privacy) . I personally wouldn't send them anything .

[BitcoinSupremo]

Even if some people don't want to admit it , everyone should understand that both exchanges and debit cards services defeat the whole purpose of using Bitcoin in the first place because they ask you to send your real information's while you are probably using Bitcoin because it's anonymous .
So , It really depends on you and you only (and how much you care about your privacy) . I personally wouldn't send them anything .

I will also prefer to not send them anything, but if you need badly that debit card, I can send them my ID. Of course this way they will have only 1 of my btc address, while I can remain anonymous with for example the other 99 addresses I use, so not a very big problem for me in the end.

[Decoded]

I think you're mistaken. Not your bitcoin address (that's nowhere close to an ID  ), but your ID. A proof of identity. A selfie of you holding up your driver's license, or showing a bill payment receipt. I heard that works.

[BitcoinSupremo]

I think you're mistaken. Not your bitcoin address (that's nowhere close to an ID  ), but your ID. A proof of identity. A selfie of you holding up your driver's license, or showing a bill payment receipt. I heard that works.

Not at all mistaken, I send them my real ID , jpg format but as I already said they only know I am using 1 Bitcoin address used in their website, they don't know for example if I have 99 other btc addresses so I am not mistaken at all.

[panjul07]

I wont send my ID to any kinds of site just for a bitcoin debit card. There are some other sites offers free bitcoin debit card without ID verification.
What makes this debit card more special than other bitcoin debit cards so they requires an ID verification?

[upsidedown75]

As far as I know, you're not allowed to get a debit card without surrendering your ID at all, even with bitcoins. I use a free online debit card (which has a very high trust value from many people and big companies alike) and they do ask for my ID as well.
It does however voids the advantage of bitcoin of anonymity.

[LTU_btc]

I have a question which are a bit offtopic, but don't want create new topic. Is bitwala offers virtual or physical debit cards for free and does this promotion still alive, because it's only limited for 2000 cards? And if I order they debit card on this promotion I don't need to pay anything, for example for delivering?

[amacar2]

The only problem i see with all these mychoicecorporation card are the monthly fee as i already have one card issued by cryptopay which is actually i get from mychoicecorporation. But this can be good deal as i will not afraid to share my id to get this physical card. I really care about the exchange margins in sell and buy of the bitcoin during topup.

[ravens]

You can actually get a anonymous virtual debit card(probably not from here thougb). You can put up a fake address, name on the card, etc.

[Hazir]

I would rather use normal debit card issued by my local bank that trying to obtain and use 'bitcoin powered' one.
We should aim for bitcoin direct adoption and not create workarounds just to be able to use BTC.

[bitbaby]

I have never used any of the online services which asks for my personal info and I will NEVER use them, the danger of getting your id stolen and misused is much greater and if I wanted to use a debit card I can use the one issued by my bank.

[zend7]

Giving out your identification for any purpose is never a good trade off.
For any amount of money as they can make much more with it than what they give you for it in the first place.

[reb0rn21]

debit card have limits, in anyway you gona need to give ID....

[coinzat]

if you need a credit card without limitations, you will have to verify it with your personal info. so I do not say any problem with sending them my ID if I was interested in their free card. but due to the card fees , I do not use them