Visa approved Bitcoin spending debit card for Australian CryptoSpend company. Now this Australian digital asset company will be able to provide Visa debit cards which will facilitate Bitcoin & crypto spends directly without going through the procedure of selling assets.
Recently, Visa company gave their statement about digital currency and said they understand the potential of cryptocurrency, so they will expand & develop their ecosystem for crypto services. And now finally they are following their commitment.
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CryptosSpend is a company which facilitates their users to spend crypto assets with the help of their platform. But now they got approval from Visa to facilitate their users Crypto Debit Card to spend Crypto assets.
CryptoSpend announced today, they got approval for the issuance of a physical debit card that will allow their Australian users to spend their digital assets through their debit card directly at local merchants.
Founder of CryptoSpend said in interview
“the Australian Financial Review that the new card will be issued by major local payments company Novatti and is expected to hit the market in September. Visa is expected to announce the approval later this week”
In their service, users will be able to spend their Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP & Bitcoin Cash. And the Custody of the fund will remain under BitGo.
Andrew Grech, Co-founder of CryptoSpend, said that Australian user will be able to directly cash out their Bitcoin profit instead to go through the selling procedure
“Spending it directly is a more convenient way of selling it. If the market is green, someone could say it’s time to spend some of my profits. On the other side of the fence, another person might say it’s going to keep going up, I’ll hold onto it. But we have seen more spending volume when the price is going up.”
Well this is not going to be the first platform which will facilitate the Crypto spend directly. There are already many platforms which are giving this facility.
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Binance also have approval to Give facility of Crypto spend through Visa Debit Card but unfortunately they are not giving their services in Australia.
Crypto.com has full approval for a long time to issue physical Visa Crypto Debit Cards for their users.
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