Here's that announcement I promised you on Guy Fawkes Day.
Remittio is open for business! It provides a slick way to push your favorite digital currencies directly to your debit card or bank account in just one step.
London-based Remittio.com is our latest independent spinoff -- put together by some names and faces you may recognize from the BitShares and Steemit communities:
Do you have digital currencies and a Visa® or MasterCard® issued from any local bank, ANYWHERE in the world? If you do, Remittio's Load Any Debit Card® platform can assist you. We can load the debit card you currently have in your pocket, no matter where you got it from. Remittio's Load Any Debit Card® platform can load the EXISTING debit card you have in your wallet using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, BitShares, Steem, Litecoin, or 40 other Cryptocurrencies!
Using our Pay Any Bank Account® service, you can also send digital currencies to ANY bank account in 180 countries. Your money will be deposited as USD, EURO, CNY, or 19 other currencies directly into your account within 24-48 hours. A small selection of banks below.
The process is refreshingly simple:
We can load just about any Visa or MasterCard on the planet. This includes cards issued from your local bank. We can load Visa logo cards, MasterCard logo cards, reloadable prepaid debit cards, mango money reloadable prepaid debit cards, kaiku reloadable prepaid debit cards, netspend reloadable prepaid debit cards, accountnow reloadable prepaid debit cards, vision premier reloadable prepaid debit cards, greendot reloadable prepaid debit cards, ace elite reloadable prepaid debit cards, walmart money card reloadable prepaid debit cards, upside visa reloadable prepaid debit cards, my vanilla reloadable prepaid debit cards, rush card reloadable prepaid debit cards, paypal prepaid reloadable prepaid debit cards, kpf prepaid reloadable prepaid debit cards, pnc smart access reloadable prepaid debit cards, walgreens balance financial reloadable prepaid debit cards, chase liquid reloadable prepaid debit cards, ready debit gold reloadable prepaid debit cards, meta bank reloadable prepaid debit cards, and just about any other prepaid reloadable debit card that has a Visa or MasterCard logo worldwide.
with existing banks, blockchains and licensed service providers.
We never touch your money ourselves.
You can learn more on our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
Coming Attractions
In the spring Remittio will be issuing our own custom debit card for people living in countries that restrict the freedom of their citizens to access third party cards. Integration with BlockPay is in the works.
We currently support most popular digital currencies, but plan to call special attention of all resulting traffic to BitShares and Steemit products and services as the website matures.
Easier and much cheaper ways to use all major digital currencies should help attract traffic and stimulate growth throughout the BitShares / Steemit ecosystem.
Let us know what you think!
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Great to see, thank you for sharing, and keep up the good work!
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Remittio is different from other services like Shapeshift because:
That can be a game changer for BitShares (for real this time). It would propel BTS market cap AND the attention from the public where it belongs for so long.
In order to achieve that, a proper plan should be put in place.
A vague "we'll try to promote BitShares" won't do a thing. The sooo patient BitShares community has seen it many times from the beginning.
It's not a critic, just an observation. Your priority should be your main business off course ;)
Best of luck with Remittio =]
True. As you can see, we are trying to build it up one sustainable brick at a time rather than announcing our strategic plan all in advance. Each brick will work when we announce it and we will lay no brick before its time.
Peerplays style ! I like it, it showed to be a good way to go !
This is cool, so the BIN on this is wavecrest? I know they were having delays of 7 days or more and some other issues like an inability to deal with USA issued cards when we looked into them last.
Did all of that get worked out then?
Not using wavecrest for that - but we have spoken with them quite a bit.
Great news !!! Can you give us more details on how BitShares can benefit from Remittio ? Is it gonna be through higher traffic on actual MPA or through creation of new ones ... or something else ?
Well, we've always wanted more on and off ramps for BitShares. So this helps us there.
We thought about limiting the currencies we support to just Graphene-based blockchains, but decided that it made more sense to support ALL the popular coins and use the opportunity to interact with people from many communities as a way to call their attention to what the BitShares Decentralized Exchange can do for them. We still need to design that part of the website but didn't want to hold up going live with the features we already have ready for prime time.
It would be smart you take NO FEES(or discount) for BTS and STEEM transactions OR something like that! That would create enough BUZZ around STEEM & BITSHARES... Many would exchange their cryptos for STEEM & BTS to get the discount !!! So they would get more familiar with our technology/currencies!
$0 + 0% fees or
$10 + 0% fees or
$5 + 1% fees etc...
or something like that ;)
I will consider that to push adoption, our goal was to get the mobile app up, and then start playing with a push to educate about smartcoins/UIA, and give them incentive to do so - such as your lower fees idea.
Thx for the input @liondani
Good to know, thanks ;)
Registered, but as i understand not everything works yet, right?
2 questions:
How do i offer you to add more currencies to accept in the future?
And second (more of a UI thing) - After i log in, top left of the screen, there is a page thing that looks like a page thats listing, its very annoying and hides text + it pops up every second without me hovering over it =)
Thanks for the feedback. We're working to get everything perfect, but believe it is already useful. We will continue to add polish and features and would love to work with our partners to add more currencies.
Loading debit is down for the week due to - API update from our service provider
All transactions will be routed to the SEPA/SWIFT service until it is reinstated.
Accepting additional Crypto? Which would you like to see?
We may change the page corner flip - what style is less annoying? We did not want to do a pop-up, open for suggestions...
Flip style is fine, but it keeps flipping even when you are not hovering directly over it - very annoying ) maybe make it less sensititve
Yes, im talking about crypto, but i was asking in general for the future.
Right now cryptos are all passing through shapeshift, so anything they list or add in the future will be added. We plan on using the Blocktrades.us service to accept additional currencies as well, so anything they provide will also be added. We may eventually build our own engine for this, but our ORIGINAL intention was to only work with BitShares partners and offshoots to help bring more volume to the BTS family.
Im talking about Graphene-based currency, its just not traded yet
Shapeshift will not add any crypto unless there are trading pairs on a few exchanges with decent volume for them to work with, I haven't asked Dan N. specifically about Blocktrades but I assume something similar.
This looks very cool. I will need to read the FAQ. Are you related to Dan BTW? You have the same name:)
...once I was the master.
Wowww, that is awesome, LOL!!!
: )
Dan's father, no joke.
Darth Larimer
Yes I only just realised it was his Dad:)
I did send you a LI request just now. I am still learning about all these things, it can be very confusing at times. TY for this post. I am in #Canadastan (:
See what I did there?????? (:
#OICwutudid nice one, I accept all connections :)
Great spin-off @stan. Having all in one in the graphene ecosystem is a powerfull value proposition. I support the project and will get mine when it's ready. thks
Wow, this is great news and exciting development! Congrats and thank you. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Stan, this is terrific. Thanks to you and your team.
The first thing I made is to look my calendar!
YES!!! It's not 1 April !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Taggart aka @michaelx is scammer and liar. Please stay away from this company.
He had a partnership with Banx, scam business that deceived investors and took their money. Remittio was one of the companies that was co-owned with Banx and Taggart. Banx shareholders were promised profits from Remittio.
https://steemit.com/banx/@samupaha/banx-was-definitely-a-scam
I am very disappointed with @stan because he still doesn't understand that creating connections between Bitshares/Steem and well-known scam is really really bad for business.
This has nothing to do with Banx.
I know Michael well.
He is pivotal in the future of BitShares.
Yes it does. Remittio has been owned by Banx. This company has really bad reputation because of it.
Bitshares can't succeed if there are people like Taggart involved. Nobody trusts businesses that are run by well-known scammers.
Repeating something false over and over does not make it well known, nor truth, it makes you a parrot.
The only partnership with Banx that Remittio previously had was - we agreed to use Banx as our main exchange for crypto to fiat conversions since they announced they were joining the Bitshares network - in order to try and strengthen Bitshares partners as they came on board. Part of the deal was giving Banx some shares in the company in exchange for extremely favorable exchange rates.
Remittio never got to the point of ever even using Banx for any service, and their ownership from Remittio was removed beginning of the year.
Are you done yet, this is getting to be borderline insane on your part.
50% of Remittio was owned by Banx and Banx shareholders were promised profits from it, so this partnership was used to deceive potential shareholders to buy more shares. Very clearly it has been used as a part of a scam. Reputation of Remittio has gone forever.
Nothing insane in warning other people about scammers. It's what every decent human being should do.
You are just making things up, such as a grand scheme of deception by Banx. The fact is I asked for Banx to relinquish any shares because of their problems. Sounds like a responsible decision, doesn't it? Calling yourself decent is a stretch.
Great News ! Big thing is real this time. Very glad seeing this.
What I think? Best news ever! Will immediately sign up..
Very interesting service.
Did any one try it ?
Great work Stan! I love these game changing projects!
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
Competitive rates indeed.
This is great. I just signed up, and will give it a try some time.
I want to use this :)
Very good information.. You help me and you follow me @Sandra16 ;)
Followed and voted! You follow me @Sandra16
Sounds like a the website is making false claims.
"We are the only website in the world that can load your Bank Account, Bank Card, Debit Card, or Prepaid Debit Card using 40+ cryptocurrencies!"
What about this then?
https://www.loaddebitcard.com
Look in the site info, they are a part of our service, we acquired the company. Try not to jump to conclusions without taking a minute to breathe.
Thanks... I thought it was something like that... but there is sooo much info that it was hard to find.
No problem. We can accept users and transactions right now, we are still planning our attack strategy now. We will put more out publicly in the near future.
Did remittio.com just copy pasted loaddebitcard.com ?
Read the reply above - thanks.
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Think the $10 transaction fee kind of defeats the purpose of freeing money...
Unfortunately, that's just the cost of conversion from digital to fiat. Eventually when it get's a lot more transactions going through, we will have more flexibility in fee structuring.
The real goal is to get them to use digital currencies more...because eventually they won't exit to fiat. With us providing card services we close the loop and make it easier to not have to transact with a bank if they don't want to. Also, Billpay is in the future.
The cost is much less that $10...
Very much look forward to not having to transact with a (broke) bank! :)
10$ per load. Wow!
up to 90k per transaction. Small loads do not make sense, but larger loads do.
Also, consider you do not have digital to digital xfer fees.
My one question is, can I go to a store, purchase a visa branded cash card, and transfer my steem to it?
Yes you can, but you must load it once first using the issuer's normal method to keep them happy. Details are on our FAQ page.
So, if I load it at the store then I can exchange my steem to you and get dollars loaded on the card?
Yes - more information about these questions can be found here: https://remittio.com/faq/
thanks!!
You need to move on man