Quote from: Artemis3 on January 13, 2020, 04:09:20 PM

Quote from: TimtheYoutuber on January 13, 2020, 03:16:42 PM

Who here uses Bitcoin daily or lives on the financial crypto market?

I personally use Bitcoin wherever I possibly can, and accept it directly without converting it to fiat immediately. I have been using Bitcoin daily for years. (Ever since Bitpay started improving its Bitcoin debit card product)

This is a really interesting topic so I have reopened it. Here are some of my other threads on the topic that were closed. It is really cool to see the progression of comments which suggest that people are using it more and more.

And what are the fees for using this debit card? This is one of the things banks that want to remain in business should start considering to do, become payment processors themselves.

Of course this is not exactly adoption but helping in the transition. If the merchant directly takes bitcoin, there is no reason to give extra fees to a processor. However, as a service, it is nice to have just in case.

More importantly, who else in addition to bitpay is doing this? Bitcoin cards (debit/credit) have existed before, but if i recall correctly their fees were very high, not unlike those of an ATM. It is for the convenience, i guess.

For alternative crypto debit cards you could look at coinbase and wirex,
I created a thread comparing the fees for both > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215053.msg53526840#msg53526840

Up and coming bank activity from Europe might bring more of this sort
of service as they now have a green light to deal in Crypto according to
this article > https://www.coindesk.com/german-banks-allowed-to-sell-and-custody-crypto-assets-from-2020-report