Potential customers express significant concern over the risk of holding $50,000 on Kraken's new "Krak" debit card app to earn 2% cashback, citing the lack of FDIC insurance and the potential for...

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    "summary": "Potential customers express significant concern over the risk of holding $50,000 on Kraken's new \"Krak\" debit card app to earn 2% cashback, citing the lack of FDIC insurance and the potential for total loss if the company fails or is hacked.",
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        "author": "Resident-Theme2336",
        "excerpt": "It's not FDIC insured because it's not a bank, plain and simple. If Kraken goes under or gets hacked, that 50k could vanish with no guarantee you'll see a cent of it back\n\n 2% cashback sounds nice but you'd need to spend a fortune just to break even on the risk you're taking. I'd rather keep the cash somewhere boring and safe",
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        "author": "thejdobs",
        "excerpt": "There are so many better ways of getting bigger cash back rates that involve far less risk. This is a bad idea",
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        "author": "Fine-Comparison-2949",
        "excerpt": "You could literally learn more crypto and create a Uniswap pool on a secure hard wallet, and probably do better yield for the same risk of losing all your money in 30 seconds.\n\n If you're going to put yourself in a position where your money can be parted from you, at least do it for better yield.",
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        "excerpt": "Current APY at an fdic insured bank is 3%. 4% if you do a 8-9 month cd.\n\n To outearn that at 2%, you’d have to spend $76000 on your debit card for the year. Which means you basically put every expense of yours on that card, and eat the fees that some places will charge you (looking at you mortgage and utility bills) for using a debit card instead of ACH transfers.\n\n So at any given point you basic",
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        "author": "doormatt26",
        "excerpt": "You make more if you just bought a T-bill, what are we talking about here",
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        "excerpt": "Imagine doing that for 2%",
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        "author": "Swimming_dasa",
        "excerpt": "the key question us not really 2% cashback its what legal protections apply to that 50k dollars while it sits there. i would read the account agreement carefully identify where funds are actually held and compare that risk against the rewards.",
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        "author": "Accuria",
        "excerpt": "you should basically see it as a direct investment in the company.. you are directly lending them the cash..\n\n Drop the schemes crazy and just pop it into sp500 instead and keep what you need on the short term on a proper account.",
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    "post_text": "Kraken's Founder advocated in the past to never hold money on exchanges, and now Krak invites people to hold money on their platform without government protection: is 2% unlimited cash back on debit spending worth the risk of holding $50,000 on there?\n\nDebit cards issued by non-banks are a rather new thing to me, so I'm wondering what's the risk profile here. There are no Kraken subreddits run by community users only, so I'm asking here. I look forward to hearing your genuine responses!",
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