In a tweet, the US based cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announced that Users of the cryptocurrency exchange can now purchase bitcoin using their debit and credit cards. The exchange also supports deposits withdrawals of cryptocurrency into local bank accounts in over 80 countries.
Purchasing cryptocurrency has been a daunting task for a long time for many who desire to purchase cryptocurrency easily and withdrawal of same to their local currency for easy spending have been seeing difficulties however, other exchanges have tried making this easier by offering their users the ability to buy crypto with their cards. Poloniex enters this category of exchanges with this move.
According to Poloniex, customers of the exchange can withdraw the USDC stable coin into their bank accounts as well as send fiat into their Poloniex and have it automatically converted into tokenized USDC for trading.
In making the purchase of Bitcoin with their credit and debit cards, Poloniex has partnered with Payment Processor Simplex to allow the users of the exchange to quickly and easily get in on cryptocurrency at a moment’s notice. The disadvantage however is the charges which stands at a greater of 3.5% or $10 transaction fee which Simplex charges. This will affect those in developing countries whose currency is very much low in value compared to the dollar or users with lower financial capabilities. Buying more bitcoin would be better.
The exchange pegs deposits at a weekly limit of $50,000 and withdrawals at $25,000 however, it signified this can be increased for specific customer’s need as typical with exchanges in this Fiat-to-Crypto category.
Poloniex launched in January 2014 is based in the US and it offers cryptocurrency exchange services, margin trading, lending according to its’ website. It allows users to exchange cryptocurrency against five trading pairs such as BTC, USDC, ETH, XMR and USDT. The exchange was acquired by Circle for $400 million in February 2018. Currently at an average of $55 million daily trading volume and ranked 59 in coinmarketcap.
The move to allow easy purchase of crypto and withdrawal of same to local bank accounts will definitely cause a boost in its trading activities.
