Topic: bitinstant paycard - page 8. (Read 26596 times)

Absolutely.  The gubment isn't gonna let anyone do electronic transactions in USD without the mark on their forehead.

Kinda sucks that the wait is still up to ten minutes. Otherwise I would use this card while empty, on purpose, then say excuse me and load it up from my phone's Bitcoin waller right in front of them. Seeing charging a card up so quickly from a phone, directly to the card (scanning the QR code on it) will be a sufficiently unusual thing for them to start asking questions about. Maybe I'll just do that at 2pm after the lunch rush is over and they are empty.

Pre-ordered!

Im scared if I leave this in the house the wife will spend my coins 

Only a matter of time until a bank, likely a Swiss one, allows you to have an account in BTC 

Maybe some bankers can actually read the writing on the wall and will not go extinct.

Will I be able to buy the paycard itself with bitcoins?

Sign me up for the first 1000 freebie.

I'll use it every where I go, unless I can talk them into a direct bitcoin payment.

Took me a while to realise how cool this actually is. Not just for the additional convenience it provides to those allready using bitcoin, while the rest of the world is still stuck in the dark ages, but also for the vast number of new users that will come to hear of bitcoin for the first time because of this.

The card looks sufficiently unlike a run-of-the-mill mastercard, that you are likely to get a question about it if you are paying for lunch with it (especially if you first load it from your phone). If other bitcoiners are anything like me, that is all the excuse they need to ramble on about bitcoins and how awesome they are until the listener's ears are bleeding  .

Not only that, but someone learning about bitcoins in this context (i.e. seeing someone pay for something in the  real world using bitcoins) will be much less likely to form a snap decision that they are "play money" or ultimately worthless. This bias towards the physical is what makes Cascascius coins so popular and such a powerful marketing tool for bitcoin itself. But  the card is even better, because merchants everywhere accept it.

A significant fraction of those introduced to biitcoin in this way will be the merchants themselves and any merchant who digs a little deeper will soon realise that he could have save a bundle on card charges if he simply accepted the bitcoins directly.  So, once everyone has the cards, no-one will ever need to use them again. 

Go Charlie!

Im sure that the first 1k will be reserved within a week..Or sooner...

Signed up, this is cool 

The cards will have a bitcoin address and QR code on the front, you can send BTC to the card using that.

So how would you fund the debit card/credit card? and if you live in Canada can you still get one

Updated first post and topic name.

Any word on whether I'll be able to register two or three cards under my LLC name? (I can provide my real name and all AML requirements for myself)

(signed up anyway)

And signed up!

So awesome you guys.

Corrected:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHZtVkZSVm92X0otR2gzb3UtckFVNVE6MQ

https://docs.google.com/a/bitinstant.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHZtVkZSVm92X0otR2gzb3UtckFVNVE6M

Brilliant idea. Loading a debit card with BTC absolutely great. 
I wonder which banks are involved. Banks within EU or non-EU banks?