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BitPay alternative

I used to use BitPay to pay some bills. Unfortunately, they stopped doing that for a while now. They use MoonPay to convert to ACH which sucks for the crazy fees.

Does anyone use any other apps? I found an app called Strike. It has the option to pay bills without exchanging to USD, via a routing bank number. Pretty cool considering most websites only give a debt card, but not a bank number. The fees however seems to be expensive, 0.089% vs the traditional

AI Quote:
For a $1,000 BTC/ETH sale, using the fee rates we were comparing:

Platform Approx. sell fee Cost on $1,000
OKX U.S. 0.08% maker / 0.10% taker $0.80–$1.00
bitFlyer Lightning 0.10% $1.00
Gate US about 0.38% $3.80
Strike 0.89% at the lowest volume tier $8.90
Robinhood exchange routing up to 0.95% at the lowest tier up to $9.50
eToro 1.00% $10.00
Uphold about 1.8%–1.95% $18–$19.50

The big caveat is bank withdrawal cost. For only $1,000, a platform with a cheap trading fee can still be worse overall if it charges a fixed wire fee. For example, bitFlyer’s $20 wire fee would make a $1,000 cash-out roughly $21 total, despite the $1 trading fee.

So for a small amount like $1,000, free ACH matters a lot more than it does for a $50k or $100k sale.


Strike fees are reasonable. And their bill pay service is free. You're only paying for conversions.

Spritz Finance also has a Bill Pay service using crypto but it's 2% fee.

https://app.spritz.finance/

These places have to make money to operate.


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