TGIF! A few months ago, I chanced upon an article by The Smart Local in which the writer wrote “We Tried To Live Only On Cryptocurrency For 24H In Singapore” – which turned out to be nothing exciting at all, since he explained that it’s actually difficult to use “actual crypto” for all our purchases.
The article then branched out to document an entire day of surviving purely on using Crypto.com pre-paid debit Visa card which has no actual relation to the title of the blog post – because the same can be achieved with the Revolut card, Hugo Save card, GrabPay card or Singlife card.
Note that technically, no crypto is used at all for the purchases made despite being repeated mentioned in the article. This reason is that the Crypto.com Visa card has already been topped up with Singapore dollars (or other currencies) prior to usage, by either –...