Highly-Rated Crypto Platform Embily Launches Virtual and Plastic Debit Cards ...

This article has been updated to clarify that this giveaway is for free virtual bitcoin debit cards, not plastic bitcoin debit cards. E-Coin, a popular Bitcoin debit card provider, is having a holiday giveaway. Everyone who participates in this giveaway by submitting at least 10 gleam.io entries will receive an E-Coin virtual debit card for free. Getting 10 entries should be easy enough, since E-Coin offers 20 different things you can do to earn a submission. A few tasks can even be completed more than once per day. These tasks include watching E-Coin related YouTube Videos, Tweeting about....

Plastic cards are often considered to be the next evolutionary step in the world of payments. More and more countries are moving away from cash transactions whenever possible, and it only seems to make sense for plastic cards to take their place. However, there are still a fair few drawbacks to plastic cards, and the PNC issue highlights what happens when cards are not working. Imagine standing in line at the counter, waiting to pay with your PNC Bank Card, and getting the message how your card can not be used at this time. That is the feeling many PNC Bank customers are experiencing....

E-Coin, a virtual debit card and multi-signature wallet, has raised $63,136 (USD) in a $384,538 (USD) online funding campaign, marking progress in its mission to fill the gap between bitcoin and fiat currency. The E-coin debit card funded with bitcoin can be accepted where most major credit cards are accepted. The E-Coin funding campaign on www.bnktothefuture.com has already raised 16% of an upwardly-revised goal with 21 days left as of Oct. 14, 2015, reflecting a strong response to E-Coin's efforts to integrate bitcoin with fiat currencies. E-Coin launched in 2014 and has already shipped....

Shake, the service that creates VISA debit cards you can load with bitcoin, is opening beta testing to the public. A bunch of new features is also on the way to complement the service. Tap-and-Pay, Plastic Cards, All With Bitcoin. Shake is launching the open beta after a successful six-month alpha testing period. Famously, the test saw BitGo engineer Mason Borda order a Tesla Model 3 using a virtual Shake card for the deposit. The Canadian company currently offers apps for Android and iOS. Users with NFC-enabled phones can also use them to make tap-and-pay payments at store terminals.....

Many of you may be familiar with services offered by payment processors such as Neteller in which you can create a virtual credit card and use said card for online purchases, anything that would not involve presenting the card in-person. Well, E-Coin is bringing the same feature into its bitcoin debit card service. If you want a bitcoin debit card to use solely for online purchases or Paypal, this is the way to go. You skip the necessity of waiting for your card to arrive and can start using it immediately. E-Coin uses BitGo multi-sig for security. The team at E-Coin has made it clear that....