What this site is
buy-crypto.cards covers two related subjects that most sites collapse into one. The first is card-to-crypto: using an ordinary bank card to buy cryptocurrency, including what it costs, which banks block it and why purchases fail. The second is crypto-to-card: the Visa and Mastercard products that let you spend a crypto balance at a terminal, including their fees, custody arrangements and country availability.
They share a payment network and almost nothing else. Keeping them separate is the organising principle of the site, because somebody trying to buy their first bitcoin needs entirely different information from somebody choosing a card to spend a stablecoin balance abroad.
What this site is not
We are not a bank, an electronic money institution, a card issuer, an exchange, a broker or a licensed financial adviser. We do not hold client funds, execute transactions or introduce customers to products on a commission basis that affects our rankings. We will never ask you for a card number, a seed phrase, a private key or a password, and any message claiming to be from us that does is not from us.
Nothing on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Crypto assets are volatile, and in many jurisdictions the consumer protections that apply to bank deposits do not apply to them. You can lose money.
How we work
Every figure we publish comes from a primary source wherever one exists: the provider's own fee schedule and terms, the card network's published rules, the relevant regulator's public register, or a tax authority's own guidance. Where a figure cannot be confirmed at source — which happens more often than you would expect, particularly for ATM limits and delivery times outside Europe — we say so on the page rather than filling the gap with something plausible.
Our full method, including the six criteria we score cards against and why fee transparency carries so much weight, is set out on the rating page. The short version is that we weight the costs that apply to every transaction above the rewards that apply to almost nobody.
On authorship
Our pages are researched and written by our editorial team. We do not invent author personas, fabricate credentials or attach stock photographs to names that do not exist — a practice that is unfortunately common in this category. Where a page contains an assessment or a judgement, it is ours, and it is presented as an assessment rather than as a fact.
Independence
Providers cannot pay to appear in our comparison tables, to be excluded from them, or to be ranked higher within them. External links carry rel="nofollow". Where we link to a card provider, an exchange, a regulator or a tax authority, it is so you can verify a claim on the source's own site.
That is not a claim to perfection. Terms in this market change constantly and without announcement, and a figure that was correct when we checked it can be wrong by the time you read it. That is why every review carries a review date, every table carries a note telling you to confirm at source, and why we would genuinely like to hear about errors.
Coverage
We currently publish detailed reviews of six card products, eight guides to card categories, seven buying guides covering every card-based funding method, reference pages on fees, security, verification and tax, and country guides for the United States, Australia, Japan, Nigeria, Canada and Europe.
The country coverage is deliberate. Availability, funding rails, bank attitudes, regulators and tax treatment all vary by market, and none of them transfers across a border. A single global comparison table is how sites end up publishing a fee that has not applied in your country for two years.
Get in touch
Corrections, questions and reader reports are welcome at contact@buy-crypto.cards or through our contact page. Reports about bank behaviour are especially useful: issuers rarely publish their crypto policies, and the only reliable evidence of what a bank actually does is what happens at checkout for real people.