Quote from: SFR10 on February 04, 2018, 07:07:11 AM

There's another similar project (to an extent) that is trying to achieve this (etcetera). Regardless of that, it will be nice to have some alternatives as well (like your project).

Quote from: Severos on February 03, 2018, 07:34:50 PM

would you guys be interested in buying/using it? and why?

It depends on how "easy" the whole process is (for buying it). If it saves me the hassle to go through an exchange (in order to buy small amounts of BTCitcoin), just so I could send it to someone as a gift and for normal usage, then "YES".

I'll take a look at that project when I'm back home.

At the start it might be a bit annoying till I establish some flow (and hopefully a company and sell at local shops), the initial idea was that you pay the card fee and the charge amount in crypto, but since you've raised such concern of exchange hassle, I'll work on a solution to accept the most common (non crypto) payments as well.

Quote from: noormcs5 on February 04, 2018, 11:58:32 AM

Yeah, it is a good idea to make bitcoin gift cards. If you want to do it then it is good opportunity for you, and now people are buying and selling different things from bitcoin then why not you can do it. I always courage you and now in this forum wise, you can do publicity of your bitcoin gift cards.

Thanks for the encouragement Cheesy

Quote from: SamsungBitcoin on February 04, 2018, 02:53:02 PM

Quote from: noormcs5 on February 04, 2018, 11:58:32 AM

Yeah, it is a good idea to make bitcoin gift cards. If you want to do it then it is good opportunity for you, and now people are buying and selling different things from bitcoin then why not you can do it. I always courage you and now in this forum wise, you can do publicity of your bitcoin gift cards.

Correct, i think many bitcoin users will be interested with this kind of idea, you should need to list all the stores accepting bitcoin right now all over the world to used your card spending with that store like here in our country most of the stores accepting bitcoin is cafe and lodge.

Can you share here the designs of the gift cards.

The idea of listing all stores accepting bitcoin is very nice, it'll allow people to know where they can use their coins at.

Quote from: ralle14 on February 04, 2018, 03:48:44 PM

I would be interested in buying a bitcoin gift card if the rates are similar to most bitcoin exchanges and also it's a good way of giving someone bitcoins instead of sending them to their address. One time I bought a bitcoin gift card before from this website but the rates were so expensive compared to my local exchanges where buy rates are cheaper by 30%.

As I said above, it wasn't in my thoughts to accept non-crypto payments, but with this feature being requested I'll make sure to give it a deep view to ensure customer satisfaction, so rest assured.

Quote from: Barbut on February 04, 2018, 05:31:28 PM

If you wish to do a good job then you need to offer bitcoin and other altcoins gift cards. I would be interested in buying such cards like presents for some close people I know, in that case I would like more expensive gift cards, and some cheap ones for people I know and I wish to give them a ticket for this crypto world.
Idea is great and I think there was similar ideas in the past. Every start is hard but if you are dedicated maybe you can do something more and start some good business. I will follow this topic and if you start with crypto gift cards I will be one of your first customers. Good luck my friend, if I don't see your start feel free to PM me.

I'll be working on a generalized solution that supports all crypto currencies, it actually shouldn't be much different than BTC implementation, will probably do few DOGE cards for the lol (along with testing and ads).
Thanks for the encouragement, I'm contacting few friends to help me get started, hopefully we get stuff managed (mostly worried about the legals, and initial production amounts).

Sorry if I missed any question/concern that anyone posted, I'm a bit sleepy Embarrassed

Few new questions for you guys to help me model the service:
1- Do you prefer a preset amount for each card? or would you like to charge it up to your liking?
2- Would you prefer a complete online order (even if it costs you slight privacy? specially when paying non-crypto like PP) or would you prefer to complete the deal at a shop with cash in hand and no personal info required?
3- If you answered 2 with completing at a shop, would you consider being a local distributor? why? and what would you expect in return?
4- Would you plan on buying larger quantities? continuous supply? or you just buy couple cards on special occasions and forget the service for the rest of the year? as this can affect the way to get local distributor.
5- Would you trust me/us/company to have the private keys in order to make things a bit easier at your end? or would you prefer spending extra couple minutes at your end to complete the deal without me/us/company having any way of touching the money in the card? note that this choice will affect the ability to recover the funds in case the card is lost, at the expense of storing some of your personal info, so this isn't for everyone.
6- Do you have expected shape/size/dimensions for the card? it might end up a bit larger than normal cards, but will make sure the space is well used.