Best crypto cards for frequent travelers
The traveler persona overlaps heavily with the broader travel category, but the filter here is tighter: the 33 cards below charge 1% or less FX and also come as a physical card, which you want on a three-week trip to a country where you don't speak the language. Two things separate a good travel card from a great one. First, what happens when you lose it: can you freeze it and put a virtual card into Apple Pay or Google Pay within minutes, or do you wait days for a replacement to reach a hotel address? Second, whether the card runs on Visa Plus or Mastercard Cirrus at the ATM. Local acceptance varies by country, so packing one of each is the boring but correct answer for serious travel. Don't trust marketing copy that claims "works in 200+ countries": that is the network's footprint, not the issuer's list of countries where you may use the card.
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