Uphold Wouldn't Take My Credit Card to Fund My Account.... Instead I Learned an Alternative Process

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The last couple of days I have been trying to use my Debit/Credit Card in Uphold to fund my account so I could get some Hive to buy some other tokens!
I followed the same process that had worked for me in the past to accomplish this but my transactions got rejected each time.

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I asked the question in the CTP Telegram group (always a super helpful resource) and @blainjones responded to let me know that Uphold had changed something about the credit card needing to have some kind of new security.
I will have to look into that further.

Nothing bad happened. I didn't lose any money or anything. I did only try to transfer the minimum, ten dollars US to make sure that I wouldn't lose too much if anything went wrong.

Jon Olson wrote an article about how to do this around a year ago.

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Mike Dell reminded me about it today. And the best part? I had watched some videos in Coinbase a long time ago and had some other coins sitting in my account!

So, now I have just over 23 Hive in my wallet that I can spend on other Hive Engine tokens and I didn't have to take any money out of my bank at all and I learned how to convert coins I had in Coinbase to Litecoin and then to Hive.

And I didn't have to be stressed out about Uphold not working for me.

My takeaway from this little experience? It is always good to know more than one way to accomplish a task. It's more of a reinforcement really.



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Yup I am right there with you. If it was not for the Fiat to Crypto article that @jongolson wrote I would have never figured it out. I have had problems trying to buy crypto on both Coinbase & Uphold, but I have found that with apple pay I can buy on coinbase by funding my coinbase card and then just trading the crypto, and oddly enough my PayPal Business card works on Uphold.
With in the next 5 years I think or hope that it becomes simpler as crypto becomes more common :-)

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That is an awesome article! Between that and Jon and Blain literally walking me through the Uphold side several times I fianlly got it. Just have to do it to learn it. Like pretty much everything else. Thanks for commenting and have a great day and weekend, Chris!
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