Hey community,
We are thrilled to announce that we are launching our (USD denominated) International Prepaid Cards. You can now live from your sick crypto gains, using any of our 800+ listed coins to buy globally accepted Mastercards. You can spend these cards on multiple online stores, as well as on the huge majority physical venues, as these cards are accepted in all credit card machines that accept USD international cards. We've been testing these cards for a while and you won't find issues having them accepted on local commerce. Some online companies that check for 3DS are exceptions to this rule, such as Amazon and Twitter, for example. But generally you won't find any difficulty living from these cards.
We are planning on offering also EUR and GBP denominated cards for people in Europe starting next week, and we are also looking into other options to make our cards cheaper for the users.
To buy a prepaid card you only have to provide en e-mail address to Trocador, so we can send there your activation link. On the link, you'll have to fill an address form, but this address does not need to be related to any delivery address in case you are wondering. You also don't need to upload personal documents, so that's a plus.
Also, to celebrate the launch, we are offering the chance to win 4x $50 Cards. To participate, just follow the instructions on this link.
https://twitter.com/TrocadorApp/status/1722987823664410844
Regarding 1, the attack has been going on for weeks, and now the attacker shifted to using mostly ToR exit nodes on the clearnet, so some users reported that it is not always that they can access the website when using exit nodes, sometimes they get blocked because of the rate limiting that is in place to fight off the DDoS. But we can see the attack on localhost as well (actually spamming on localhost), which indicates the attacker is also using onion connections to attack us. This is a fact. Some people from the community suggested we implemented some solutions on onion, and we are going to look into it this week.
Regarding 2, that's exactly what is happening, as other services are also being affected see https://status.torproject.org/; As we said, we are a small team and we are working into solving all issues this week. We've been providing the community with good services for quite a while, and we hope to normalize the situation once we improve our defenses.
Network Performance Issues v3 Onion Services "We’ve been experiencing an unusually high load on the Tor network during the last couple of weeks, which impacts the performance of onion services and non-onion services traffic. We are currently investigating potential mitigations."