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The Crypto.com Visa Card — Is It Worth Your Time?

The pros and cons of one of the most popular crypto payment options.

Israel Miles
6 min readApr 20, 2021

Despite the recent rough patch, the crypto field is continuing to see new growth and opportunities from innovative blockchain technologies to broadening payment options. With so much change going on, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest options to get involved with the crypto space. One of my favorites over the past few months has been the crypto.com solid metal Visa debit card. While the card has a ton of great benefits, it’s gone through plenty of changes recently — so here’s my full review of the pros and cons so you can decide if you want to get involved yourself!

If you haven’t heard of this card before, it’s a tiered system ranging from an absolutely free card with 1% cash back on all purchases up to an ultra-exclusive Obsidian card with some serious benefits. You move up the tiered system by staking crypto.com’s own cryptocurrency, CRO. If you’re unfamiliar with crypto staking, check out my recent article that explains the details. Basically, staking is a way for you to earn interest on your crypto while having it locked away for a set period of time.

To me, staking is a win-win. Not only do I earn some serious rewards on my otherwise stagnant crypto, I’m unable to access my

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Israel Miles
Israel Miles

Written by Israel Miles

Software Engineer at Audible. Remote Work Proponent and writer of anything that gets a rant out of me.

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