Dead & discontinued bitcoin cards
Card programs die with their BIN sponsors and their operators. This archive documents what happened to each - so you know which operators have a history of stranding user balances.
| Card | Status | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| discontinued | Discontinued for new applicants - the longest-running US crypto prepaid card, now ended. Kept as archive: BitPay continues as a payments company, but the card program is closed to new users. | |
| discontinued | Bitcoin Well discontinued its Visa debit card in 08/2023 and pivoted to self-custody bill pay. | |
| dead | Bitwala rebranded to Nuri and wound down in the 2022/2023 insolvency of Nuri GmbH (Berlin). The current nuri.com is an unrelated relaunch (Nurisoft OÜ, Estonia) - no corporate successor. | |
| discontinued | Card withdrawn after the BlockFi bankruptcy (2022) and the FTX-contagion wind-down; the rewards program ended with the company. Archive entry. | |
| discontinued | Card discontinued - one of the oldest BTC card products, ended by the 2023 EEA issuer squeeze. Archive entry only. | |
| dead | Dead - the crypto-cashback neobank frozen in the Synapse collapse of 2024. Archive entry: this is what happens when your card's bank rails run through a middleman that fails - the cautionary tale for every BaaS-stacked c | |
| dead | Dead - TRASTRA (UAB 'Trastra EU', Vilnius) filed for insolvency in May 2025; its own August 2025 creditor notice declares the company insolvent. The site is unreachable (522) and users report locked funds. Archive entry: | |
| dead | Dead - the canonical issuer-risk story: a card program dies with its BIN sponsor (Wirecard, June 2020). This archive entry is why issuer structure matters in every review on this site. | |
| discontinued | Upgrade pulled its Bitcoin Rewards card (2023); the product is no longer offered - NerdWallet lists it among discontinued crypto cards. | |
| discontinued | Discontinued in practice - no card product is marketed on uquid.com anymore (card URLs return 404; the site is a web3 shopping marketplace). The card rail has been gone since at least January 2025; do not sign up expecti | |
| discontinued | Discontinued - the US national bank that pioneered in-app crypto trading, then dropped it in early 2024 under OCC consent-order pressure. Archive entry for the banks segment: even a real US bank charter did not make cryp | |
| dead | Dead - in special administration since 7 July 2025 (FCA-confirmed). The UK's small crypto-neobank went insolvent after the FCA stopped its activities in June 2025; ~GBP 2M of customer funds are missing, 'Boost' savers we |