It is not today that plastic money is preferred by many people, allowing them to make payments on the Internet or physically, added agility, it also brings security, by not having to be carrying cash in the portfolio.
I recommend everyone to acquire at least a reloadable debit card to make purchases over the Internet, thus avoiding entering the data of the major credit card at many sites, this way you do not run the risk of a hacker to use your credit card to benefit own, which would bring several problems from a hell of a headache to solve the problem even some financial loss, if you can not chargeback with your financial institution.
Since last year, began to appear rechargeable debit cards in Bitcoin are currently available four rechargeable cards from different companies, Anx, AdvancedCash, E-coin and Xapo. To make this comparison, we ask the four cards, which came quickly was the Anx Debit Card, please via express shipping, took ten calendar days.
The second card that request was AdvCash or AdvancedCash as you like, it took exactly 22 calendar days, but this time I opted for the free shipping, could have asked for express freight too, but would charge me $ 99.00 (USD) which in our case does not, because we had no hurry. The Xapo card took about 17 days. But the E-coin card, took 19 days.
But it is important to highlight the difference Xapo card to other cards. While the cards Anx, AdvCash and E-coin balances are stored in dollars, the card Xapo the balance is stored in Bitcoin. In my opinion this is not an advantage and nor a disadvantage, but a feature of each card, the future owner of the card, you want to dollar stability, suggest escape the Xapo card, since it is subject to variations price of Bitcoin, on the other hand, if the price of Bitcoin up, you can pocket good money directly in Xapo card, in addition to a portfolio of bitcoin in plastic, which I think is really cool! The great advantage I see in rechargeable debit cards in Bitcoin is not having to worry if the site or shop accepts Bitcoin as payment, because the cards are MasterCard, which allows spend them in 36 million establishments several countries. And for us Brazilians, rechargeable debit cards in Bitcoin have an additional advantage, it is not necessary to pay 6.38% IOF (financial operations tax) as the travel cards sold in Brazil, such as MasterCard and Visa Travel Money Travel card, generating savings for our pocket.
Note: Xapo cards, E-Coin and Anx follow the pattern of the issuing bank design. The AdvCash card is personalized with the logo of AdvCash.
AdvCash and Anx are MasterCard, Xapo and E-Coin are Visa.
I'll have to remember this post when I'm able to cash out some coin, thank you!