Last week I was in Istanbul and kept running into a weird issue trying to use BiTaksi. I’ll be back in a month and would love to sort this out before then.
Every time I try to use my Visa credit card, the transaction gets declined with the message: “You can’t buy cryptocurrency with a credit card.”
I called my bank, and they said the merchant is apparently coded under something related to cryptocurrency on the Visa side, so the charge gets automatically blocked, and they can’t override it.
Has anyone else run into this recently?
Is this a known issue with foreign (US) cards?
Any workaround besides using cash?
Do apps like Uber or iTaksi work better with international cards?
Would really appreciate any insight, this was way more frustrating than expected.