Wirex Limited has announced that starting this month, its popular virtual bitcoin debit card denominated in either USD, GBP or EUR can be redeemed for free from Wirex app, available for Android and iOS users.

“Now everyone can own a virtual Visa card from Wirex App, for free! That’s right, we’re giving away bitcoin debit cards worth $3 from our mobile app”, the company said in a blog post.

The move is expected to benefit new and existing Wirex/E-Coin users with no existing cards in accounts. Upon registration or login in the Wirex app, users can order and receive bitcoin debit card (virtual; worth $3) directly from the app. Wirex has also posted a text tutorial and video tutorial on how to redeem the free card.



“We want to make it easy for the bitcoin community to spend bitcoins online, for free,” said Pavel Matveev, co-founder of Wirex (previously E-Coin), “Simply order the virtual card through Wirex app and now users can spend bitcoins anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted. We’re happy to give a lot more spending power to bitcoin users.”

Besides acting as a shopping tool and bitcoin debit card, Wirex virtual cards can also be used as an online banking account that can be accessed worldwide via desktop or mobile, to perform fiat-to-fiat conversions, to make cheap and fast international money transfer, to verify PayPal accounts and much more. In a blog post, the company explained that the virtual cards can also be used to buy bitcoins with PayPal (in 37 countries), bank transfers and Alternative Payment Methods.

Non-bitcoin users can fund their Wirex card accounts via several options such as bank transfers, PayPal, and other popular alternative payment methods such as Alipay, P24, GiroPay and much more. A full list of supported alternative payment methods can be found in Wirex’s blog post, “Ways to Top Up Your Wirex and E-Coin Account.”

A verified account is not required but recommended for the best Wirex experience. Verified accounts get more account funding options as well as higher limits on the card. Wirex app users will be able to use E-Coin platform until further notice. All users, cards, and accounts will move over to the new wirexapp.com platform once it launches.