A Note About Crypto Payment Cards: Why Adoption Is Coming

Payment cards are interesting beasts right now for cryptocurrency, for people trying to move away from any normal bank ‘interruptions’. They are pioneering the mountain face of finance. And they are great fun.

[Note: this is not a sponsored post. Links are personal affiliate links to Wirex etc, mainly because I’m enjoying using them right now, here in Europe.]

So… prepare your Wirex card by sending it your Bitcoin, and then before you go shopping (or are standing in the shop) use the Wirex mobile app.

With said app, exchange your BTC into whatever fiat currency we must tolerate today. You also must load up/top up the card. Admittedly, you might want to do this in your car, before you enter said shop/store. But it’s easy and smart using the app, which displays many wallets for many cryptos.

When ‘true’ crypto cards arrive, where lots of merchants can accept cryptocurrency directly, we’ll all be in digital money wonderland, with value zipping around the real and virtual world like nothing ever seen, but until that time comes…

For now I simply love the experience of Wirex (a uk-based fintech) and because the fees aren’t quite so bad for buying/selling crypto, versus Coinbase and Bitpanda.