Quote from: gentlemand on April 03, 2018, 05:26:33 PM

Quote from: stompix on April 03, 2018, 05:23:20 PM

With those prices I'm far better of just withdrawing from Kraken to my ING account

The actual usefulness of these cards depends hugely on where you're living. In the UK there aren't any exchanges and banks can often get the hump and shut you down if you sell via Localbitcoins more than a couple of times.

Because of that cards were extremely useful as they never touch any bank account.

If you're somewhere in mainland Europe then there's not much point and never really has been. SEPA and slightly less hostile banks make them kind of pointless.

I don't like keeping coins with a third party, especially if it's a shady on, so using this kind of cards would really be a last resort. But yeah, sometimes the EU is a good place to be.

I've done 6-8 transactions with locabitcoin BTC > fiat because it was instant bank transfer so I've got my money in 2 mins or so while being away from home. But lately localbitcoins sellers around here are buying with a margin of around 5-10% and that's a big turn-off so I don't think I'm going to use them again. While doing it, no news from my bank although one transaction wasn't that small...

I'm surprised about what you say regarding UK? Really?
This is news to me, and a bit weird.
Are you already out of the EU? Grin