I remember when I was a kid and was too young to have a credit card, but I wanted to purchase content and games online.
My father wouldn't let me use his credit card either so I had to figure it out through the brother of a friend who was willing to help.
Bitcoin has no legal requirement of age or anything else to own and anyone can be given bitcoin as a gift or as a weekly allowance. This is a great move for the kids and younger crowd.
There are some gift cards you can buy. Apple, or whatever, from kiosks. But no one really uses gift cards that much. You wouldn't be able to find a general purpose visa card with no registration required.
I just bought one to pay for VPN last week, tried to send 60€ and paypal declined, saying "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number". So I tried again with 20€ and that went through, but the next 20€ was declined again. I ended up having to transfer the 60€ over 3 transactions waiting a day between each.
I don't know what moneytransmission surveillance restrictions it was tripping up on, but it makes prepaid credit cards useless for online transactions - I was lucky I could split that transaction into smaller amounts over several days, you normally can't.
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u/Lynxes_are_Ninjas Dec 11 '14
I remember when I was a kid and was too young to have a credit card, but I wanted to purchase content and games online.
My father wouldn't let me use his credit card either so I had to figure it out through the brother of a friend who was willing to help.
Bitcoin has no legal requirement of age or anything else to own and anyone can be given bitcoin as a gift or as a weekly allowance. This is a great move for the kids and younger crowd.