Brickfrog

In August, Canoo moved its headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to Justin, Texas — asking 137 of the office’s 194 employees to relocate, while cutting the remaining staff.

Yikes, not great for all those employees that moved their entire lives out to TX just to get laid off. They weren’t even working in TX long enough to qualify for unemployment. Hopefully they were getting paid enough to deal with relocation and maybe have enough saved up to get the hell out of TX after this.

My bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards sadly.

If you’re just looking for virtual cards, could you just apply for a credit card with that capability? In the U.S. there are credit card providers that can do that, not sure about Canada but I figured it’d be the same there.

Otherwise the comment from /u/[email protected] is spot on, all the phone apps like Google Pay already virtualize your card number so you’re not actually sharing your full details with the merchant. Or make your own prepaid debit card via a separate checking account you put a bit of spending money into.

Edit: why the downvotes?

Users on lemmy.world are generally very anti cryptocurrency, they’re going to downvote anything discussing the topic. Just browse other cryptocurrency posts in this instance and read all the .world comments.

re: your question I suspect to truly selfhost you’d need to sync the bitcoin blockchain onto your own system and work from there, either with the official client or some other heavy wallet. Beyond that not sure, may need to script a query to your local wallet to monitor for changes to specific BTC addresses (if something doesn’t already exist to do this).