bitcoincard.org

[adamstgBit]

what is this, when can i get mine?

http://bitcoincard.org/

[mccorvic]

"Now, imagine a card that can grant you any wish, even if that wish is for more wishes. What does this card look like? Jesus. Combined with Godzilla.  It also comes with the entire Beatles catalog in .ogg format that you can play directly into your brain through tiny lasers that combine to form an ad-hoc laser network to signal Batman."

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

what is this, when can i get mine?

http://bitcoincard.org/

A few Bitcoiners and I are meeting the guys behing BitcoinCard in Europe at the end of the month to talk about US Distribution.

Will keep you all updated!

[adamstgBit]

what is this, when can i get mine?

http://bitcoincard.org/

A few Bitcoiners and I are meeting the guys behing BitcoinCard in Europe at the end of the month to talk about US Distribution.

Will keep you all updated!

are you saying this card is for real?

sounds like something out of science fiction movie!

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

what is this, when can i get mine?

http://bitcoincard.org/

A few Bitcoiners and I are meeting the guys behing BitcoinCard in Europe at the end of the month to talk about US Distribution.

Will keep you all updated!

are you saying this card is for real?

sounds like something out of science fiction movie!

Oh its for real! I was playing around with it at Future of Money Summit on Monday.

The dudes are super cool and LOVE BITCOIN.

Here is his twitter https://twitter.com/#!/shurakuzmin

[mc_lovin]

whoa!! i couldn't even have dreamed of a cooler device!!  

if it transmits wirelessly it'll probably get hacked pretty darn quick, but i guess if this card is advanced enough to change the firmware that could be fixed..

[kangasbros]

whoa!! i couldn't even have dreamed of a cooler device!!  

if it transmits wirelessly it'll probably get hacked pretty darn quick, but i guess if this card is advanced enough to change the firmware that could be fixed..

Well yeah, don't get excited too quickly. Because to me, that technology seems vaporware - someone who doesn't really understand how to build technology has gotten couple of really cool ideas, and has made this video. And now he/she is looking for funding. It is all good, but the card is _very_ unrealistic to me.

[adamstgBit]

whoa!! i couldn't even have dreamed of a cooler device!!  

if it transmits wirelessly it'll probably get hacked pretty darn quick, but i guess if this card is advanced enough to change the firmware that could be fixed..

Well yeah, don't get excited too quickly. Because to me, that technology seems vaporware - someone who doesn't really understand how to build technology has gotten couple of really cool ideas, and has made this video. And now he/she is looking for funding. It is all good, but the card is _very_ unrealistic to me.

Yankee (BitInstant)  says its for real

what is this, when can i get mine?

http://bitcoincard.org/

A few Bitcoiners and I are meeting the guys behing BitcoinCard in Europe at the end of the month to talk about US Distribution.

Will keep you all updated!

are you saying this card is for real?

sounds like something out of science fiction movie!

Oh its for real! I was playing around with it at Future of Money Summit on Monday.

The dudes are super cool and LOVE BITCOIN.

Here is his twitter https://twitter.com/#!/shurakuzmin

[rjk]

All the advertising shit at the end pisses me off. I hope that is strictly opt-in, and can be disabled. However, I recognize that that is probably the only thing that will sell it to big businesses.  

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

whoa!! i couldn't even have dreamed of a cooler device!!  

if it transmits wirelessly it'll probably get hacked pretty darn quick, but i guess if this card is advanced enough to change the firmware that could be fixed..

Well yeah, don't get excited too quickly. Because to me, that technology seems vaporware - someone who doesn't really understand how to build technology has gotten couple of really cool ideas, and has made this video. And now he/she is looking for funding. It is all good, but the card is _very_ unrealistic to me.

Umm...I've actually used the product, held it, and met the creators...a few days ago

[mccorvic]

Umm...I've actually used the product, held it, and met the creators...a few days ago

I think you'd understand if we all said "pics or didn't happen". 

[Etlase2]

rofl yes the card that knows everything about you and sells your information to the lowest bidder has great appeal to the average bitcoin nerd

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

Umm...I've actually used the product, held it, and met the creators...a few days ago

I think you'd understand if we all said "pics or didn't happen". 

Heh, of course.

If you check twitter https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/bitcoincard you can see people who tweeted it while the presentation was being shown.

In addition, Tony from Bit-Pay was there, Jered from TradeHill, Patrick from Intersango, and a few others were there.

...Just ask them 

[2_Thumbs_Up]

So when can we expect the first real life video of this?

[benjamindees]

Great, a Bitcoin tracking device.  I wonder which government agency is funding this.

Watching the video, I assumed this was just a stock promo from the card manufacturer, but if you look closely it actually says "bitcoincard.org" on there.  So that's interesting.

And I'm going to have to also request pics because this looks like complete vaporware.

[Herbert]

Great, a Bitcoin tracking device.  I wonder which government agency is funding this.

Watching the video, I assumed this was just a stock promo from the card manufacturer, but if you look closely it actually says "bitcoincard.org" on there.  So that's interesting.

And I'm going to have to also request pics because this looks like complete vaporware.

Agree. "Pics or it didn't happen!" This is too good to be true.

[World]

more information how is work is here and join the discussion any suggestion welcome
"Dedicated bitcoin devices - dealing with untrusted networks"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77553.msg865040#msg865040

[zer0]

Awesome except

-zero technical info given,  none of us can determine what kind of MITM or potential spamming can be done with it
-hinted at possible tracking and user data mining in the video
-says transactions are 'encrypted' but no info about the text messages
-FCC is impossible to deal with, which is why wireless and radio chip manufacturers in Asia have to come up with binary blobs to deliberately sabotage their own hardware in order to comply with FCC rules, so will probably never be released in the states
-vaporware. why can't anybody just release product anymore without creating hype first

[mccorvic]

-vaporware. why can't anybody just release product anymore without creating hype first

Do you have a better way of getting investment money without working??

[notme]

-vaporware. why can't anybody just release product anymore without creating hype first

1. People with capital to make a product reality rarely innovate.
2. People who innovate rarely have the capital to make the product a reality beyond a few demo devices.
3. Investors are freaked out right now, and it's going to get worse before it gets better.
4. If you can show enough interest (note the "sign up" link),you can convince investors you might have a shot in this rough economic scenario.
5. Even with interest, I would think this would be a tough sell since it needs a huge density of users to be effective.  Unless they can give them away and make money from transactions or something I don't see it happening.  If they can give them away, I would like 1000 to give away, as well as 10 or so ethernet bridges for people to give internet connectivity to the ad-hoc network.