I activated coinbase card yesterday and the pin was given to me over the phone.
I went to the local meat store today snd while paying, informed the lady at the till that I am using the card for the first time. To my disappointment the card was declined.
I realised I needed to choose the wallet from where the funds should go. It was defaulted to ETH wallet but I had funds in btc. There are also LTC and BCH wallets.
I chose the BTC wallet on the app and the transaction went through at local Supermarket.
The total cost of goods was £4 to make the calculations easy, which was equivalent to 0.00063btc and I paid 0.00065 btc including a fee, I think miner’s fee and the total cost was £4.12, which isn’t bad however the numbers won’t look good for larger transactions.
Yesterday I bought £200 worth of bitcoin and after miners and coinbase fees there was £194.5 worth of btc in my coinbase account. This has swollen to £215 this morning as btc went up by 9% overnight. My current balance is around £210 , so literally I bought the goods for nothing which is a great feeling.
In my opinion cb card is well worth using in bull runs and I really hope this run will last longer.
Have a great time.
