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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] BlackCoin (BC) | on exchanges | PoS | No premine
by
MuffinMaster
on 28/03/2014, 20:26:26 UTC
RE: BlackCoin virtual/real Visa and Mastercard

tl;dr this will never happen.

Preface: I'm not saying this to hurt BlackCoin. I believe in it, am invested in it, and put my company into it.

Content: That said, there's a lot of naivete going around here, from buyers who haven't been around the crypto community very long, and I think it needs to be set right. There is no point in people getting their expectations up about this.

This card will never exist. There have been a couple attempts since 2011 to do this with Bitcoin. The closest anyone got I'm pretty sure was Charlie Shrem. Visa/MC declined to give him permission after rounds of legal back and forth. At the time that was not V/MC policy because they had no policy on it. Now it is.

Visa and Mastercard have the ultimate say over whether a certain card will be issued, and they have a lot to lose from virtual currencies. They are not going to allow a direct route for withdrawal from crypto to fiat through an ATM. It's not going to happen.

I'm not saying this to burst anyone's bubble, I'm saying it so that a bubble will not form around this idea. Because those of us who've been transacting in crypto/fiat for a long time now understand that this is completely blocked by the card companies and is not going to get off the ground.

I completely appreciate what the OP is trying to do here and applaud his enthusiasm, but prior to a conversation with the card companies this is nothing.

maybe they denied bitcoin back when it was worthless compared to now, and they didn't see it having value. Perhaps they are looking for a coin to piggy back on since bitcoin has already got to the moon? Imagine the PR visa/mastercard would get by the crypto community by authorizing not bitcoin, but blackcoin.

but.... i don't have a lot of hope for this actually to be approved.