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I believe so. Never used them with bold's app. But you can setup these cards on your own ln node. Completly uncustodial. Lnbits has many features suporting it. You can also get these cards from the company: plebtag. They even have glowing laser eyes (LED's charged by NFC).

What store? If you're arguing that using bitcoin to pay your utility provider is easy because you have 1 of the few whole do, that isn't actually advice it's luck that you're in a jurisdiction that does it.

Examples how to do it directly using Bitcoin wallets https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-lightning-irl-examples and how to pay utilities with bitcoin https://darth-coin.github.io/beginner/pay-with-bitcoin-en.html

Is a real shame for a bitcoin company that sells fiat visa products and push merchants to accept fiat instead of bitcoin. I think you do not realize what a fucked up situation is that... we want bitcoin adoption by pushing visa/fiat use? FIAT DELENDA EST

😆 VISA is the largest payment network in the world: • "promoting" them or not will make exactly zero difference. • Are you saying you don't have a debit or credit card? • It's about dropping the *dollar,* not VISA. VISA doesn't counterfeit entire countries worth of money every month, they just do bank cards and retail payments.

No. I do not have any visa card anymore. From 2018 I live only using Bitcoin. How are you "dropping" the dollar when you go with a visa card to pay? visa is using only fake dollars IOUs. Going to a merchant to pay with a visa card you are LITERALLY supporting fiat. Shame to see this from you Guy... defending the use of fiat instead of promoting the use of bitcoin.

Watch and learn why we need to drop fiat in any shape or form, including those visa cards... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nCzzgEwC7s I was expecting this comment from anybody else but not from you Guy Swan...

😲 Didn't expect this take from Guy Swann either. Dropping the dollar might be the first step, but it's not the end game. You cannot become free if you insist on using their private payment networks instead of the bitcoin/lightning network. I do have a debit and credit card and bank account but I'm not exactly proud of it. We should aim towards a world where we can use bitcoin everywhere, and we don't depend on their networks/systems. Using TBC prepaid visa is a crutch, not the goal. Those in power can take non-KYC prepaid cards away if they want to. Let's not lose sight of that.

This is what people don’t get. Visa is a company motivated by profit. Visa could plug bitcoin into their network and overnight make accepting bitcoin for payments trivial. If they don’t they could possibly die. Anyone with a brain can see the lightning network is far superior to their current network. Visa took decades to get where they are today.

Thanks Swann! Glad someone has some sanity in this foolish purity test. Visa using fiat dollars to move value today in 2040 it can be sats. It’s just a network. Clearly people haven’t done their homework on how visa came to power. Listen to this: https://fountain.fm/clip/H5KxZ9Hc8ULULAYySob3 If you got 3 hours to kill: https://fountain.fm/episode/vxY9eBOLOYOZcajqbeos You will learn how visa used the Olympics to push merchant adoption. Then boom an explosion to make payments more convenient but to this day merchants still hate cards.

I have the app, but I'm looking for a re-loadable prepaid physical credit card. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need credit cards, but this is not a perfect world. I've been pondering the first sentence of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto these days. "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the digital age." From what I can tell, an open society is a term coined by Karl Popper. An open society is a free society. People are free to do as they please and talk to whoever they wish to talk to. When the going gets tough, the tough get authoratarian. They demand, "papers please." Businesses with NO CASH ACCEPTED signs are subtle ways of refusing service to those without papers. Did AI find your face at the trucker protest? Bank account banned. NO CASH ACCEPTED. If history rhymes, as Mark Twain once quipped, we can expect the world to become more authoritarian while the money continues to break. Darthcoin makes some good points, but I'm searching for solutions to live free in an unfree world, not knock on door doors and preach the good news of Satoshi. People will accept bitcoin when they need to, but first, we must show them. That's why I'm so bullish on nostr. Sorry for the long rant. 😅

Zapped it! 💪 I understand the goal but you can’t lose sight of the day to day needs of living. Can’t change the world if you are dead or in jail. I understand Darth’s passion but here I think it’s misguided. Plus he’s using fiat indirectly because every that is needed for survival takes fiat for purchase. I don’t know any energy companies or ISPs that accept bitcoin. They all accept dollars for the services they provide.

Yeah, but he has some great articles. I've also been looking for a bill pay service in the US since Bitrefill discontinued the service. He's also not wrong, but there's only so many hours in the day. You have to choose your battles.