Reloadable debit cards for BitCoin?

[JackH]

Does anyone know if there is a card kind of solution out there that offers BitCoin loading? Preferably on the fly more or less.....

[jjVon]

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.

[JackH]

Can the address be translated into a bar code by some converter?

[jjVon]

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.

[sayrith]

Yeah I came up with sort of the same idea 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/) and this (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.