SpectroCoin is giving away free bitcoin debit cards
UK Bitcoin service provider SpectroCoin.com last month introduced multi-currency wallets for its clients, so now they can choose among of a number of currencies such as EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, CZK, PLN, NOK to name but a few as their base currency in SpectroCoin.com wallet.
In addition, to this company has also released virtual and physical debit cards denominated in USD and GBP in addition to ones denominated in EUR.
One of they key benefits of these cards is the low cost as the virtual card costs only 0.5 USD and debit card costs only 9 USD, which is the lowest offering in the market. The deposit to the card is instantaneous and at the favorable exchange rate.
Also, a multicurrency option is available for merchant clients, so now payments received in bitcoin by SpectroCoin clients can be settled not only in EUR but also USD, GBP, CHF, CZK, PLN, NOK and a number of other currencies.
To promote this new card offering, SpectroCoin.com is sponsoring an online questionnaire, which is going to be used as a part of an academic study to investigate the impact of news on Bitcoin price. The questionnaire is used to build a sentiment dictionary to indicate how different words in bitcoin context are perceived by the community. This research is conducted by researchers at Leuven Institute for Research on Information systems.
Most importantly due to sponsorship by SpectroCoin.com every respondent who provides email will receive a free virtual bitcoin debit card from SpectroCoin.com. Cards will be distributed at the beginning of March.
The questionnaire can be found here: http://poll.spectrocoin.com/
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