{"id":19969,"date":"2019-06-12T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe65c00c26c3"},"modified":"2019-06-12T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T21:11:09","slug":"the-coinbase-card-expands-to-six-more-european-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/the-coinbase-card-expands-to-six-more-european-countries","title":{"rendered":"The Coinbase Card Expands to Six More European Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/coinbase-card.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has expanded its Visa debit card access to six European countries. <\/p>\n<p>Coinbase Card is now available to clients in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Ireland, according to a June 11, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinbase.com\/coinbase-card-is-now-available-in-europe-12798388060c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a>. Coinbase users within these countries can now spend their crypto assets online and in physical stores where debit cards are accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The card links customer crypto balances on Coinbase with their cards. Every time a client makes a purchase, it converts their cryptocurrency into fiat to complete the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>The debit card comes with an app for choosing the crypto wallet funding the debit card. The card was first <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/coinbase-introduces-debit-card-linked-cryptocurrency-balances-uk-customers\">launched<\/a> for U.K. users in April 2019. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/06\/12\/coinbase-expands-its-cryptocurrency-debit-card-to-europe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with CNBC, Coinbase U.K.\u2019s CEO said that the company \u201cblew past\u201d the 1,000 units it offered users for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase has made its crypto-powered Visa debit card available in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":19970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[190,1319,200,1946,3338,3019,1955,530,1612],"class_list":{"0":"post-19969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technical","8":"tag-coinbase","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-netherlands","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-visa"},"author_data":{"id":3435,"name":"Jimmy Aki","nicename":"jimmy-aki","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/jimmy-aki-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/coinbase-card.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}