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Learn how to protect your finances and avoid gift card scams, including those in the world of cryptocurrency.
Gift Cards News
Gift cards are prepaid, stored-value money cards that may be used to purchase goods from a particular retailer. Gift cards are mostly given by retailers themselves for marketing purposes but may also be used as a present by consumers. Gift cards are widely used in North America and the digitalization of gift cards helps them gain even more popularity due to the simplification of their use. Some services already offer the opportunity to buy gift cards with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. There are also services that provide the purchasing of Bitcoin with Amazon gift cards. Buying Bitcoin with a gift card is easier for some users, because it reduces the need of transferring money to Bitcoin exchanges. Gift cards of such retailers as iTunes, Steam, PlayStation are also widely accepted by most services as a means of Bitcoin and gift card exchange.
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Crypto gifts not only demonstrate love but also a shared interest in the exciting world of cryptocurrency and finance.
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Through Bitcoin payment processors like BitPay, businesses in the UK can offer BTC as a payment method during checkout.
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Users can pay bills with cryptocurrency directly from their crypto wallet or using a payment processor acting as an online crypto payment gateway.
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Manor and Valora are leveraging the current crypto hype to sell Bitcoin gift cards in their stores across Switzerland.
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A new report has found almost half of all Bitcoin traded on the P2P exchange Paxful is exchanged for gift cards.
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Bitcoin can now be spent to book housing at Airbnb via Fold app gift cards alongside other big-name retailers such as Amazon, Starbucks and Uber.
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Blockchain network provider Aelf has partnered with Japan’s largest gift card platform Amaten to issue tokenized gift cards.
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Coinbase has debuted a new feature allowing users to purchase gift cards with cryptocurrency from brands such as Uber.
17465 Bitcoin gift card apps let you pay with Bitcoin at places which otherwise wouldn’t accept cryptocurrency. Cointelegraph compares the top three.
3311Bitit is a prepaid Bitcoin gift card from €25 to €250 that can be redeemed into Bitcoin.
1666Purse.io, a peer to peer marketplace known for its bitcoin-gift card service which lets users save money on e-commerce platforms like Amazon likewise allows users to purchase gasoline at Shell Stations with a 25% discount.
1978Bitcoin-based service Bitreserve has launched the voucher app Easy.money.
667Startup BuyAnyCoin (BAC) wants to hang a prepaid crypto card next to prepaid phone and debit cards in convenience stores.
1032A curious user recently asked members of the Bitcoin subreddit how they spend their bitcoins on an everyday basis. Because Reddit is a global community, it's likely that their responses are reflective of overall patterns.
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