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Tinkercoin: Buy a Small Amount of Bitcoin With a Credit Card

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4 years ago
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For some people, the only reason they haven’t yet gotten involved with bitcoin surrounds the barriers to entry. Many aren’t nearly tech savvy enough to know where to go or how to get their hands on it. Not only that, but some just don’t feel comfortable providing identification or releasing personal information about themselves.

But a Canadian start-up called Tinkercoin is hoping to change that. The firm will allow users to purchase bitcoin using a credit card (VISA and MasterCard). And while that may sound find and dandy, we should not that there are some downfalls.

First, Tinkercoin will only sell you $20 worth of bitcoin. Once. So that means right off the bat you’ll be a one-time customer. Secondly, the service charges a flat-rate $5 fee (so you’ll get $20 worth of bitcoin for $25). Thirdly, the service requires a connection to Facebook account (so they can make sure you’re not coming back for more), which may come as a turn-off to some.

Users can set up their own wallet and specify the address they’d like Tinkercoin to deposit to, or the service will facilitate the creation of a wallet at Coinbase.

Tinkercoin serves essentially as a gateway into the bitcoinosphere, if you will. It’s almost like an ATM over the web, which in itself is a pretty cool concept. Whether or not the product becomes popular is something we’ll have to measure with time.

For now, the service is at a ‘limited launch’ phase — only able to guarantee bitcoins for the first 300 purchasers. You can check them out at Tinkercoin.com.

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Comments 5

  1. Dr Bitcoin says:
    11 years ago

    Bitcoin for idiots.. er.. I mean for Facebook users.. yeah I know, same thing

    Reply
  2. iraszl says:
    11 years ago

    I guess the surcharge has to be high to cover for the credit card fraud. I don’t understand the Facebook part. One can create any number of Facebook accounts with multiple email addresses. Do they manually verify the accounts for being real?

    Reply
    • Eric Calouro says:
      11 years ago

      It’s the closest they’ll get to requesting your ID. I suppose the idea is that someone probably isn’t going to create a bunch of FB accounts to buy paltry amounts of bitcoin – especially with that fee.

      Reply
  3. deeload says:
    11 years ago

    “requires a connection to Facebook”
    didn’t bother to read any further..

    Reply
  4. apf says:
    11 years ago

    Don’t do it! SCAM. They
    steal all of your data. After giving them my FB info, and Credit card I
    got the same error as multiple others. I was unable to get a hold of anyone (3 e-mails, 3
    phone calls) I finally got “Trevor” on the live chat. He said “it’s outside of their control” …
    so thanks for stealing all of my data. My card works 100% just fine,
    don’t fall for this!

    Reply

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Comments 5

  1. Dr Bitcoin says:
    11 years ago

    Bitcoin for idiots.. er.. I mean for Facebook users.. yeah I know, same thing

    Reply
  2. iraszl says:
    11 years ago

    I guess the surcharge has to be high to cover for the credit card fraud. I don’t understand the Facebook part. One can create any number of Facebook accounts with multiple email addresses. Do they manually verify the accounts for being real?

    Reply
    • Eric Calouro says:
      11 years ago

      It’s the closest they’ll get to requesting your ID. I suppose the idea is that someone probably isn’t going to create a bunch of FB accounts to buy paltry amounts of bitcoin – especially with that fee.

      Reply
  3. deeload says:
    11 years ago

    “requires a connection to Facebook”
    didn’t bother to read any further..

    Reply
  4. apf says:
    11 years ago

    Don’t do it! SCAM. They
    steal all of your data. After giving them my FB info, and Credit card I
    got the same error as multiple others. I was unable to get a hold of anyone (3 e-mails, 3
    phone calls) I finally got “Trevor” on the live chat. He said “it’s outside of their control” …
    so thanks for stealing all of my data. My card works 100% just fine,
    don’t fall for this!

    Reply

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