Today, we’ll take a look at six of the market’s best Bitcoin debit cards. We’ll look at where it all started and how far we’ve come, and then declare a winner. Maybe, in the year 2025, the vast majority of the mainstream world will offer a Bitcoin payment option just as ubiquitously as they do PayPal. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and Bitcoin has made a lot of progress in seven years. Yet, Bitcoin’s advanced peer-to-peer payment system will have to ride the rails of the rather ancient 1950’s-based debit card technology until the world catches up to “The Future of Money.” It is a clear case of taking one step back to take several steps forward, at some point in the future. If you have not yet seen it, Andreas Antonopoulos brilliantly explains this rather clumsy game of technological leapfrog through the course of human history here. Eventually, the superior technology wins out, but we are still a few years away from that event horizon. Until that day comes, you and I are stuck using debit card technology, whose only technological update worth mentioning is a metallic chip on the front of some offerings. Many still do without, with little or no consequence. The world still runs on plastic, so the Bitcoin business community has begun to offer more and better debit card options over the last three years. Let’s start with the first one to hit the market, back in 2013. BitPlastic If you go to BitPlastic’s website , their site’s graphics will mention, more than once, that it is “The world’s only Bitcoin debit card.” This was the first Bitcoin debit card I had ever seen, back in 2013, when the others were still a gleam in a corporation’s eye, but the world has changed […]
