U.S. Users of Opera Can Buy Crypto With Apple Pay or Debit Card

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Opera says users can now buy Bitcoin and Ethereum with Apple Pay or a Debit Card.

In the US, Opera is partnering with Wyre, a US cryptocurrency-brokerage firm, to enable easy and secure crypto-purchases directly from the browser’s crypto wallet. Opera Android users in the US can now buy BTC and ETH using a debit card. iOS users can simply use Apple Pay.

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[JS_Harris]

I think Bitcoin is going in the wrong direction with this.

My bank card currently has a good amount of four different currencies but I can't add any bitcoin, for example.

It's just semantics perhaps but I'd rather "convert" cash from my bank account than "buy" with a 3rd party card.

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Good progress from Opera, imho.
I imagine, right at this time, new currencies might struggle to gain a foothold, with the usual fallback of gold being the only positive prospect, even though that's been under pressure.
Challenging times.

[mcneely]

As long as America insists on forcing the world to trade with it's petrol dollars, I don't see any new or currently existing currencies gaining any ground in the markets any time soon.
New currency is just more or less a hobby at this point