And they store only
fiat money in your accounts.
Not exact matches
The transaction works the same
in the reverse: if a recipient needs or prefers to receive a payment
in bitcoin, but the sender prefers to deal
in fiat currency, the sender can add
money to their Abra wallet using their bank
account or a local Abra Teller and then send their
fiat currency directly to the recipient's bitcoin address, even if the recipient does not have an Abra wallet.
If it were, the credit would be too much like
money because a)
accounting is done
in it, b) it is issued by a governing body (like a
fiat currency) and c) it is fungible, i.e. you can already buy things with it and if you could buy things with it AND a and b were true, it would pretty much be a currency.
TrustToken says that when users send
in fiat, their
money is kept
in an escrow
account that only they have access to, and that they can reclaim their underlying
fiat at any time.
So when you make a
fiat money deposit, set a buy order for BTC and then see a BTC balance
in your
account, you have actually bought Bitcoins and can withdraw them to your home wallet, if you wish.
Anonymous
account holders can continue to buy or sell cryptocurrencies using their virtual
accounts, but any new crypto purchases using
fiat money or withdrawals
in fiat will require complying with the new KYC - mandate.
The
fiat money can be sent directly to the credit cards of principal banks (such as Alfa - Bank, Russia or Privat24, Ukraine), to an
account in an electronic system (such as Qiwi) or received
in cash.
London - headquartered bitcoin wallet and card company, Wirex has revealed it will launch contactless debit cards for spending
money that has been loaded from cryptocurrencies and its first ever multi-currency
accounts for speedy exchange between bitcoin and
fiat (SGD, GBP, EUR, USD)
in Asia during the second quarter of 2018.
For everyone else, bitcoin exchanges offer users the ability to transfer
fiat money from a credit card or bank
account in exchange for bitcoin.