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Title: Reloadable debit cards for BitCoin? Post by: JackH on May 30, 2011, 10:02:51 PM Does anyone know if there is a card kind of solution out there that offers BitCoin loading? Preferably on the fly more or less.....
Title: Re: Reloadable debit cards for BitCoin? Post by: jjVon on May 30, 2011, 10:51:25 PM Something like that will be necessary for full integration sometime down the road. But right now with the volatility of the market, it would be quite tricky. I do think the first step for POS type transactions would be a card with your wallet address on it in the form of a bar code so the merchant could just scan the very long number. Still, I think in person commerce is a way down the road for this currency.
Title: Re: Reloadable debit cards for BitCoin? Post by: JackH on May 30, 2011, 11:09:28 PM Can the address be translated into a bar code by some converter?
Title: Re: Reloadable debit cards for BitCoin? Post by: jjVon on May 30, 2011, 11:30:00 PM sure, any label printing program like the ones used in retail stores can. the operator inputs regular characters and the software converts it to the skinny bar/fat bar sequence. there are actually several "languages" and most scanners read the top 4 or 5 languages.
Title: Re: Reloadable debit cards for BitCoin? Post by: sayrith on May 30, 2011, 11:54:41 PM Yeah I came up with sort of the same idea http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/him0f/bitcoin_debit_co/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/him0f/bitcoin_debit_co/)
What do you think? BTW This (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/hnbfe/bitcard_follow_up/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/hnbfe/bitcard_follow_up/)) and this (http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/hnrq2/programing_project/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/hnrq2/programing_project/)) is a related post on Reddit. EDIT: I get this a lot: DO NOT ASSOCIATE QR CODES IN THIS IDEA WITH PRIVATE BITCOIN KEYS. I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS NOT BITBILLS. |