@pascal257 - he's right, just tried it from Google South Africa. I've also never visited their site.


To the point, though, BitcoinBourse is endemic of a long string of failures and garbage "businesses".

Nearly a year ago I tried Markus' Bitcoin "debit card". Here is my review: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=213832.msg2705402#msg2705402

It basically consists of a TransCash debit card with massive limits on it, and then you "buy coupons" on the site and they load the EUR into the card for you. It's not automated, it's not seamless, and they aren't even issuing the cards. You can confirm it is the same outfit by checking the whois data on thebitcoincard.co.uk and bitcointocard.com.

Fast forward to now. The website (thebitcoincard.co.uk) has been suspended for non-payment and is about to expire, so anyone who actually bought a debit card from them is now stuck with no way to reload it. He's probably in very deep water for issuing cards to non-Europeans (I'm in South Africa, after all). And yet for this complete non-entity that works poorly (if at all) and may be contravening the agreements they have with TransCash, they're asking for 675 Bitcoin in "investment".

OP: nobody is "working with the forum moderators" or anything quite so conspiratorial. Rather, I would say that if it has a provably unsettling history a principle applies - "if it looks like a scamduck, swims like a scamduck, and quacks like a scamduck, then it's a scamduck."