Google wallet card - Bitcoin compatible?

[lebing]

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/11/01/introducing-the-physical-google-wallet-card-coming-soon-to-google-wallet-and-more-new-features/

I'm wondering if this will be compatible with alternative currencies - if so, it could be a good opportunity for someone to build a bitcoin app that can be switched to as a payment option on the card.

[gweedo]

I doubt that can be done, it will probably be encrypted anyway, I even doubt that google is making a physical google wallet card, that would be undermining the object of google wallet. I never heard of this rumor site either.

[Spekulatius]

Why not? Their development dep. probably detected a seriously unfit infrastructure of mobile payment terminals and decided to get this bridge solution from card to mobile terminals out. Would bitcoin be supported? Unless its open source, ill doubt it.

[lebing]

Why not? Their development dep. probably detected a serious unfit infrastructure of mobile payment terminals and decided to get this bridge solution from card to mobile terminals. Would bitcoin be supported? Unless its open source, ill doubt it.

Right, because it came from google, there is a possibility that it will be more open (to what degree, we will see) than if it came from say, Apple.
At the very least it will be compatible with bitinstants card (Assuming that is ever released).

[gweedo]

Why not? Their development dep. probably detected a seriously unfit infrastructure of mobile payment terminals and decided to get this bridge solution from card to mobile terminals out. Would bitcoin be supported? Unless its open source, ill doubt it.

But that would undo the google wallet, stuff, do you know you need to buy a google wallet terminal so they are bypassing all that infrastructure with there own system.

Why not? Their development dep. probably detected a serious unfit infrastructure of mobile payment terminals and decided to get this bridge solution from card to mobile terminals. Would bitcoin be supported? Unless its open source, ill doubt it.

Right, because it came from google, there is a possibility that it will be more open (to what degree, we will see) than if it came from say, Apple.
At the very least it will be compatible with bitinstants card (Assuming that is ever released).

Actually google isn't open to stuff like this, i doubt google has any interest in bitcoins.

[MysteryMiner]

If the card contains only magnetic track like credit card then no. The track only contain limited amount of prerecorded information on the card that identifies the card by card number and account number.