Capitalist - Is the Payment System Really That Simple?
Having failed with PayPal (which you can read about at the link), I decided to try my luck with another, but no less "magical" payment system – Capitalist.
In short
Capitalist is essentially a regular service, not much different from others. Well, except that they promise a lot, ease, and speed. Well, if that's the case, you have to try it.
But we get a STOP message
Yes, the Capitalist website is blocked in Kazakhstan, and accessing it the usual way is impossible – the reason for the blocking is unknown. We have to turn on a VPN or use the Tor browser.
However, as the artificial intelligence (in this case, Gemini) informs us, only the website itself is blocked, while everything else works... So it's still usable. But you have to be careful – the data the AI ??uses is outdated.
It works through a VPN
After launching the VPN, we can access the Capitalist website without any problems. They say registering here is simple and easy, and even at the Anonymous level, you have good options. I just need to withdraw money from one service to my Kaspi Bank card.
Let's begin registration. It's really not complicated: enter your email, create a password, and then specify your account name and nickname. Then, select your user type—individual or business. I chose "individual." For my field of activity, I chose "webmaster."
Click "register." A confirmation code will be sent to your email, or you can follow the link, and everything will be confirmed.
Our current status is unverified. In principle, this will do... But to get verified, I'll have to share a ton of confidential information about myself.
Did something go wrong?
In theory, I need to get a Capitalist ruble wallet—it's in the accounts tab. The AI ??assures us that after registration we automatically receive three accounts (wallets) – USD, EU, and RU... But we only see dollars, and we only see euros... Where are the rubles?
We contact technical support – there's a ticket system. They work quickly, and within a few minutes we receive a response:
Hello.
Rubles are no longer available in our system.
Why? No answer... I hate it when things like this happen and the platform remains silent!
Bottom line
Such unreliable financial services, whose only concern is taking a cut of your transactions, are bad services. What awaits us next? Well, we'll withdraw our pennies to this dollar account and... what happens next? Like that infamous crypto exchange ATAIX Eurasia, where the USDT withdrawal fee is at least $100... Or you transfer the money to Bitcoin, and there's no way back... Or to withdraw, you first have to convert it to the national currency, and then bam – the threshold is, say, $50...
And the bad news is, we only find out about this after the fact, when, as they say, we've arrived and there's no turning back. Our money will remain with them forever, just like with that same ATAIX Eurasia...
The problem with transfers and payments remains unresolved, and this has a significant impact on revenue. We don't have such services in Kazakhstan, but our Kazakhstani entrepreneurs need websites and materials on them, and they need to promote these sites. So they turn to Russian platforms and leave their money there. And when I do this kind of work, getting paid is extremely difficult, and sometimes impossible...
Mikhail Dmitrienko, Almaty
August 17, 2026 |
