New Team Australia Members Unite! Revisiting The Online Petition For AUD Denominated Wirex Bitcoin Cards - Your Card Is Just A Signature Away!
A bitcoin powered card for AUD transactions is your signature away...
There's been a lot of growth in #teamaustralia. That's great! Thanks to the efforts of @ausbitbank, @sirknight & @bearone to name just three, this is now a vibrant community.
That also means that our newer members will have missed out on the efforts to to petition Wirex to add Australian Dollar support to their already operational bitcoin card, now about 3 months old (the petition, not the card). Now seems like a great opportunity to bring this effort to the foreground again as the survey got off to a slow start. I've posted about this before and would like to garner some new interest.
To recap, here's the spiel:
There’s precious little in terms of choice when it comes to “debanking” options for Australians. For those unaware of the term, debanking refers to an individual’s ability to remove themselves as clients of the banking system and all the restrictions that it entails.
For now, the majority of Australians are tied to a system of employment whereby currency is earned, taxed and deposited into a bank account but there are options regarding what those funds can then be used for.
Wirex is a company that offers a card akin to a normal bank card with the important difference being that it is able to be funded via bitcoin. This is an important feature as it provides the ability to free ourselves from bank issued cards when transacting.
Unfortunately, Wirex currently only provides support for USD, GBP and EUR accounts which means that transactions made on these cards in any other currency attract a 3% currency conversion fee. This is a cost prohibitive issue.
This petition is to illustrate to Wirex the level of demand for Australian Dollar support in the hope that they will introduce a card denominated in AUD. This would provide a significant improvement in transaction freedom by allowing Australians to convert their earnings into bitcoin and then essentially use that to spend with a card.
Show your support here!
Please resteem and share this link as the more support we can get, the more chance of this becoming a reality for us. Tell your friends, tell your family, let's push to make this happen for us here in AUS.
Have you looked into tenx or monaco? They are both available to Australian's not sure about the 3% fee though..will have to do a bit more reading..
done support provided, upvote given.
Supported, with up vote and petition
I was just wondering yesterday if this was going anywhere. I want this card!
what is the time with you now
What is the price of this card
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