Recently I have been depositing check printout from buying groups to my Ally bank account. The checks are infrequent and I am not doing high volume deposits either so it was a surprise when Ally sent out a notice telling me to stop depositing checks from buying group. That’s right,…
Uphold Debit Card: 2% and 4% Cashback: Review
As mentioned in an earlier post, I have been searching for a “fun” debit card to replace my existing ones. I recently reviewed the 1% and 3% debit cards from MetaMask (which are effectively 1% cards). It turns out that both Uphold debit cards are now working again in the…
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In this blog, I have reviewed several cashback earning crypto cards, including that of CDC, Coinbase, Fold, CoinZoom, and Wirex. It is very safe to say that Blockcard is easily the least known cashback earning debit card. I mean, as of writing this blog (7/23/2022), the total spend made by…
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5/22/2023 Update: Unlimited lounge visits for eligible cardholders has been changed to 4 annual visits. Read more in this separate blog post. At a quick glance, it appears they have also nerfed Spotify and Netflix benefits by limiting reimbursement benefits for some tier of memberships to the first 6 months.…
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New Wave of Fold Debit Card Shutdown
July 15, 2022Fold is a debit card that earns Bitcoin as cashback. You can even earn a whole Bitcoin for making your usual purchases. I have written an extensive review of Fold app and card here. As mentioned in the review, Fold recently introduced fee free debit card funding and it appears…
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7/14/2022 Update: The cashback limit during this promo has been raised from $100 to $500. However, the prizepool balance was at $50k but at the time of posting (which is less than 12 hours from when promo went live), the reward pool has already depleted to around $30k. Spend fast!…
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07/1/2022 Update: Voyager has frozen withdrawal. See official blog post here. The writing was on the wall after they lowered withdrawal limit and Three Arrows failed to pay debt. See “crypto catastrophe warning” blogpost for how one crypto collapse is leading to another collapse. 06/11/2022 Update: It looks like debit…
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Another Crypto Catastrophe Warning
June 16, 2022About a month ago one of the largest stablecoin, UST, collapsed, and with it Bitcoin crashed from around $40k to around $30k. At the time I wrote a post titled “am I pulling out of crypto?“. As I mentioned in the post, I have been mostly out of crypto since…
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Insane Crypto Bonuses! [Warning]
June 11, 202206/16/2022 Update: Few hours after I posted my last warning, Celsius has paused all withdrawals. They may or may not file for bankruptcy, only time will tell. 06/11/2022 Warning: Due to current FUD surrounding Celsius, I suggest not bothering with this signup bonus for the time being. It may all…
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At this point, you are probably aware of my “how are people making thousands of dollar with Yotta debit card” post. If you aren’t or you hadn’t signed up then then this is a good time to signup and this is practically their best signup bonus. I know I haven’t…
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Coinbase Debit Card Shutdown and Reinstatement
June 2, 2022If you follow this blog then you know I love the 4% Coinbase card to a point that I have called it a must have. I have previously written about Coinbase card shutdown but that one was primarily focused around data breach. This time around, let’s talk about Coinbase card…
