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There are many cases where credit cards don't work so well. Traveling abroad for instance. Every had your card denied because of a false positive for fraud?
by awt 13y ago
There are many cases where credit cards don't work so well. Traveling abroad for instance. Every had your card denied because of a false positive for fraud? Ever lost your card on a trip? They won't send it to you where you're at. They'll only send it to your home address.
You'd be much better off using something like the blockchain.info wallet while traveling. As long as you have web access, you have access to your wallet.
- abalone 13y agoIf you can lose your card you can lose your phone too. You're proposing accessing your blockchain.info wallet via someone else's web browser? Sounds like a great way to get your entire wallet stolen. As for the inconvenience of getting a false positive fraud flag.. that's extremely rare, usually resolvable with a phone call, and probably an overall vastly more convenient way of protecting you than more inconvenient up-front authentication steps for each transaction.
- awt 13y agoYeah don't access your blockchain.info wallet on a shared computer at an internet cafe, if you can find one of those anywhere still, sure. But maybe try your laptop, unless you lost that at the same time you lost your phone. Maybe try your friend's laptop? And then change your password after you buy a new phone? It's workable. Obviously have a few different wallets, some with more money, some with less, so you can use different ones depending on the risk of the situation. Or maybe create a new wallet and have your wife send you the coins instantly. Lots of possibilities. And as rare as you claim false positives to be, it happened to me on my last trip. Happens to me every time I buy something on a foreign website.