Also, you might want to contact the guys at bitcoinlabs.com
Apparently they are working on a Bitcoin ATM machine.
Both projects would go well together.
EDIT: One last thing. This would be much more desirable if you could simply send Bitcoins from your wallet to the card without any fee other than the network transaction fee. Just have it so cards expire after a year or something, so people will need to buy anew card each year.
Topic: Announcing New Product - Bitcard, digital currency in the palm of your hand. - page 2. (Read 2626 times)
July 01, 2011, 10:48:11 PM
July 01, 2011, 10:14:31 PM
This is clearly something that would be very beneficial and help to promote Bitcoin as a viable currency in real world business. Take some time to earn trust and develop this project properly.
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Series A2011 is based on a custom form factor 1GB USB flash device ensuring cross platform compatibility
So to put it simply, what would a business owner need in order to accept Bitcard? 
July 01, 2011, 10:10:59 PM
July 01, 2011, 09:35:19 PM
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In roughly 2 weeks the first series of bitcard, series A2011, will be available for order. This first series is limited with just 100 units available.
Bitcard is designed from the ground up to meet two primary needs. First, bitcard has been designed to provide a quick, secure, and convenient physical means for person to person, person to business or business to business trade. Second, bitcard brings digital currency to the palm of your hand as a personal wallet which allows you to access your bitcoins quickly and easily from any internet connected computer.
Bitcard is designed with trade security in mind. Your bitcard can be ordered with as much or as little bitcoin as you desire. Each card is individually "minted" with a unique wallet, hand loaded on an isolated system and physically secured to prevent physical access to the flash media with a tamper evident security seal. Each seal is printed with the mint date, unique card ID, a QR code to enable balance verification of an untampered card from any QR capable device, and the bitcoin balance. As long as the seal is intact buyers and sellers alike can trade with confidence.
After the security seal is broken bitcard becomes even more valuable as a fully functional portable bitcoin wallet. Series A2011 is based on a custom form factor 1GB USB flash device ensuring cross platform compatibility and eliminating the need for uncommon extra hardware such as RFID, mag, or smart readers. Each device comes preloaded with cross-platform bitcoin clients and miners as well as encryption tools to ensure a lost card does not have to mean a lost balance. To ensure rapid usability each card is updated with the full block chain as of the mint date.
The sales website is still in development and price are not firm but anticipated pricing is as follows per current exchange rates.
BTC 0.3 Per Card Flat Fee
BTC Loading - 2% of load amount.
Sample - Bitcard with 1 BTC = 1.32BTC
Sample - Bitcard with 10 BTC = 10.50BTC
Sample - Bitcard with 100 BTC = 102.3BTC
Shipping is not determined. I am still investigating the best way to ship internationally with traceability or delivery verification.
Also it could be possible to store an encrypted version of a newly minted wallet until delivery is confirmed to allow for reclamation on lost cards. This would however have to be at customer request and perhaps not at all because I could see some scamming problems with this.
I am interested to hear how much interest there is in this and requests for specific software inclusions on various platforms.
In roughly 2 weeks the first series of bitcard, series A2011, will be available for order. This first series is limited with just 100 units available.
Bitcard is designed from the ground up to meet two primary needs. First, bitcard has been designed to provide a quick, secure, and convenient physical means for person to person, person to business or business to business trade. Second, bitcard brings digital currency to the palm of your hand as a personal wallet which allows you to access your bitcoins quickly and easily from any internet connected computer.
Bitcard is designed with trade security in mind. Your bitcard can be ordered with as much or as little bitcoin as you desire. Each card is individually "minted" with a unique wallet, hand loaded on an isolated system and physically secured to prevent physical access to the flash media with a tamper evident security seal. Each seal is printed with the mint date, unique card ID, a QR code to enable balance verification of an untampered card from any QR capable device, and the bitcoin balance. As long as the seal is intact buyers and sellers alike can trade with confidence.
After the security seal is broken bitcard becomes even more valuable as a fully functional portable bitcoin wallet. Series A2011 is based on a custom form factor 1GB USB flash device ensuring cross platform compatibility and eliminating the need for uncommon extra hardware such as RFID, mag, or smart readers. Each device comes preloaded with cross-platform bitcoin clients and miners as well as encryption tools to ensure a lost card does not have to mean a lost balance. To ensure rapid usability each card is updated with the full block chain as of the mint date.
The sales website is still in development and price are not firm but anticipated pricing is as follows per current exchange rates.
BTC 0.3 Per Card Flat Fee
BTC Loading - 2% of load amount.
Sample - Bitcard with 1 BTC = 1.32BTC
Sample - Bitcard with 10 BTC = 10.50BTC
Sample - Bitcard with 100 BTC = 102.3BTC
Shipping is not determined. I am still investigating the best way to ship internationally with traceability or delivery verification.
Also it could be possible to store an encrypted version of a newly minted wallet until delivery is confirmed to allow for reclamation on lost cards. This would however have to be at customer request and perhaps not at all because I could see some scamming problems with this.
I am interested to hear how much interest there is in this and requests for specific software inclusions on various platforms.
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