we are working on own design both for the card and for the accompanying letter.
that said, merging bitcoin with tranditional banking infrastracture is not as straightforward as it may seem. Putting ANYTHING related to bitcoin on a debit card is still a bit of a grey area
personally I wouldn't buy a debit card that has anything printed that can relate to bitcoin.
here most people don't give a....i saw one lady 3-4 months ago, paid with prepaid american visa. i told this to the worker in our grocery store, it looks like they don't care. The worker wasn't aware about "prepaid visa" at all. So if i have "bitcoin" printed ill proudly show up in our stores. I mean 99% of people here will thing that its the next good looking bank card...
The card really looks good by the way
Can you take a photo of your card received from e-coin.io ?
Hide your details but i just want to see the design of it as you say that is different from the e-coin website.
@gosha@e-coin i think the high fee are the monthly 1$ sms fee and maybe the sell price of bitcoin.
the monthly $1 is only charged (by the bank, nothing to do with E-Coin as a bitcoin buiness) when the card is used, and pretty much any bank would charge at least the same for a debit card, unless it is one linked to your salary account, which is a very different story.
The sell price of bitcoin is certainly a bit higher than you see advertised by exchanges, etc, but there simply needs to be a certain cost involved to maintain the platform running. You can barely expect your local shop have the same prices as a wholesale warehouse 100 miles away, it is simply a different service and business model