Short · checked 29 September 2026
The London bitcoin debit card that renamed itself Wirex.
A London bitcoin debit card service whose Stompstart page still carried the E-Coin name in 2019, three and a half years after the company rebranded as Wirex.
E-Coin.io's Stompstart listing sold one thing: a bitcoin debit card. The London service said it was "merging bitcoin infrastructure with traditional finances," and that its card, on Visa and Mastercard, could be used "to shop online, to pay in stores and to withdraw cash at ATMs worldwide." The pitch line promised a way to "spend bitcoin anywhere easy and fast."
When the Wayback Machine saved that page in September 2019, the name on it was three and a half years out of date. On 25 February 2016, Finance Magnates and Bitcoin.com reported that E-Coin had rebranded as Wirex, under Wirex Limited. The company said E-Coin had grown to more than 100,000 users in more than 130 countries within a year. The debit card would stop being a standalone product and become part of a wider personal banking service, with a mobile app, money transfers and a two-way card that converted between bitcoin and ordinary currencies. Co-founder Dmitry Lazarichev said the new name reflected a business that was more than a bitcoin card, and the company told existing E-Coin cardholders their cards would keep working as normal.
Wirex still operates at wirexapp.com. The site offers crypto and stablecoin debit cards on Visa and Mastercard, multi-currency accounts and a crypto exchange. It says the company was founded in London in 2014 by Pavel Matveev and Dmitry Lazarichev and is "trusted by 7 million users."
The old e-coin.io address now hosts a cryptocurrency news blog that makes no mention of Wirex or debit cards.