Huobi's European Customers Will Be able to Buy Bitcoin Directly from Visa and Mastercard The cryptocurrency exchange Huobi today announced the addition of the ability to directly purchase cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin using Visa and Mastercard. Previously, to carry out such operations, users were redirected to the interfaces of third-party services.

Huobi's European customers will be able to buy Bitcoin directly from Visa and Mastercard

Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi today announced the addition of the ability to directly purchase cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin using Visa and Mastercard. Previously, to carry out such operations, users were redirected to the interfaces of third-party services.

According to the press release, the service is provided by Huobi Technology, a Gibraltar-based regulated division of Huobi Global..

“By removing an extra step in the user's journey, we provide a smoother user experience,” said Ciara Sun, vice president of Huobi Group..

Buying cryptocurrencies with Visa cards is available in most European countries and Australia. Customers from Great Britain, Gibraltar, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Netherlands and Australia can use Mastercard cards. In Russia the service is not available "for regulatory reasons".

Huobi today also denied "information that has been circulated in the last 24 hours" that it has any problems, and said that users are still free to deposit and withdraw assets..

Earlier it became known about the transfer of Huobi Russia customer accounts to the Huobi Global platform.

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