Just got home from shopping to find that I’d run out of fiat and my card was merrily using my Bitcoin (without ever asking me if that’s what I wanted to do).
That’ll probably turn out to be the most expensive shopping I’ve ever done.
How do I turn this crazy setting off?
You might be abled to deactivate the crypto account but I do not know what’s happening then.
As far as I learned it your :r: account is one. So when I spent 100 USD and my balance on the USD acc is only 90 USD :r: will use my base acc in EUR. So it is logical that the next best acc is used. Do you have other acc than crypto and your basic currency?
edit: no second currency would cause a refused payment, right?
Ah man, that’s crazy. I could understand if we were holding stable cryptocurrencies but Bitcoin etc. are deflationary. If I spent £1000 of Bitcoin on shopping today (hypothetically speaking) that could be worth £10000 in a year, meaning I just lost £9000. It’s nuts.
I also have Euro, but that was empty.
Indeed, this is economically speaking a possible disaster. On the other side most crypto fans want to see those as an established payment method. (Those aren’t currencies ^_^)
In addition: this is the disadvantage of a prepaid card. For that reason I always carry my Visa as well.
Also: I’d recommend to post that in “Ideas”. The option to protect accounts. Maybe someone already did.
Just deactivate the BTC account. You will keep the funds, but you won’t be billed for your shopping from this account
Ah great, so there is a way. Thanks guys
So what does ‘deactivate’ imply? will the crypto balance in the deactivated account continue to follow the market pricing while transactions against them are disabled?
You can “deactivate” your cryptomanual wallets to avoid spending your crypto cash with the Revolut card. Go to the “Accounts” tab and touch the “Account Manager” icon in the upper right corner of the screen. Next, just slide the cryptone bills to the left to “disable” the wallets.
I just activated my crypto currencies but can’t see the option anywhere to deactivate - the only option on the ‘…’ is withdraw. Any ideas?
Can anyone suggest how to deactivate crypto currencies - so some reason the option is not coming up, I think it might be something I’m doing wrong. Thanks
You’re responding to a somewhat dated thread. Crypto was removed from the spending order in Revolut. You don’t have to deactivate the wallet to avoid accidental spending.
They removed the option to deactivate the crypto. Not too good decision!
Where should I have found this option in the app exactly? 
I believe you’re both misunderstanding this. Wallets can be “deactivated” to avoid accidental spending through card payments. You can’t spent crypto that way anymore – hence no deactivation toggle anymore.