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What we know about cards, fees and moving money — written to be useful even if you never open an account with us.
- Paying for Ads With Crypto Ad accounts do not charge on a schedule. They charge when spend crosses a threshold, and a card that is empty at that moment costs more than a failed payment. Read →
- Travelling With a Crypto Card Paying abroad is the easy part. The awkward parts are the hold at check-in and the car hire desk, and both are manageable if you know they are coming. Read →
- Getting Cash From a Crypto Card The issuer fee is the part you can compare in advance. The other two costs are decided at the machine, and one of them is optional. Read →
- Virtual Card vs Physical Card Not a question of which is better. A virtual card fails in places a physical one does not, and the list is shorter than most people expect. Read →
- Is a Crypto Card Safe? The risks are real but they are not the ones people worry about. Here is what actually protects the money, and what nothing protects it from. Read →
- Verification, and Why There Is No Way Round It Every card issuer asks who you are before it issues anything. Here is what is actually being checked, and what makes a check come back rejected. Read →
- Which Crypto to Top Up With The coin you top up with changes what arrives. Stablecoins land as the amount you sent; BTC and ETH land as whatever they were worth on arrival. Read →
- How to Pay for ChatGPT with Crypto OpenAI does not accept crypto. The route that works is a card you fund with crypto — here is what it costs and why cards get declined. Read →
- What a Crypto Card Actually Costs The advertised fee is rarely the real one. Most of the cost hides inside the exchange rate, where no table shows it. Read →
- Apple Pay and Google Pay with a Crypto Card Adding a card to a phone wallet replaces the number with a token. Here is what that protects, what it does not, and why cards fail to add. Read →
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