Plastc Card

#1

Post by cktsai » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:20 PM UTC

Plastc Card
plastc.com

Re: Plastc Card

#2

Post by skorecky » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:30 PM UTC

Wow, this will certainly give Coin (https://onlycoin.com/) a run for their money.

Re: Plastc Card

#3

Post by lost_name » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:34 PM UTC

skorecky wrote: post #2

Wow, this will certainly give Coin ( https://onlycoin.com/ ) a run for their money.

Important difference: Plastic supports Chip & Pin, Coin does not.

Plastic: https://www.plastc.com/card#tech-specs

Coin: https://onlycoin.com/support/faq/#security

Re: Plastc Card

#4

Post by theuri » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:35 PM UTC

Looks interesting. Was thinking of waiting until a v2 just to let them work through security issues. Seems like the website itself has some front-end glitches - like the "About" page for example (this code visible: )

Re: Plastc Card

#5

Post by seanmccann » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

Really cool, but I can't help but think this is too little too late. With Apple Pay set to launch this month, this feels lackluster.

Re: Plastc Card

#6

Post by johlindenbaum » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

With chip & pin (and the October 2015 deadline for the US to switch to chip & pin) this is awesome, and might actually make it up to Canada, where we've moved onto NFC and chip & pin.

I have a sneaky feeling that Coin's long radio silence and pushed ship dates are them re-engineering to have chip & pin at launch.

Re: Plastc Card

#7

Post by seanmccann » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:38 PM UTC

lost_name wrote: post #3

skorecky wrote: post #2

Wow, this will certainly give Coin ( https://onlycoin.com/ ) a run for their money.

Important difference: Plastic supports Chip & Pin, Coin does not. Plastic: https://www.plastc.com/card#tech-specs Coin: https://onlycoin.com/support/faq/#security

Which is increasingly important because that "far date in the future" of October 1, 2015 in less than 12 months away.

On October 1, 2015 "Liability will shift to acquirers for domestic and cross-border counterfeit fraud card-present POS transactions if the merchant does not have an EMV-enabled POS device."

Over the next year nearly all merchants will switch over.

Re: Plastc Card

#8

Post by robbiet480 » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:40 PM UTC

lost_name wrote: post #3

skorecky wrote: post #2

Wow, this will certainly give Coin ( https://onlycoin.com/ ) a run for their money.

Important difference: Plastic supports Chip & Pin, Coin does not. Plastic: https://www.plastc.com/card#tech-specs Coin: https://onlycoin.com/support/faq/#security

Plastc also supports NFC

Re: Plastc Card

#9

Post by pervycreeper » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

1) The process of selecting a card and paying appears to have many more steps compared to merely selecting the appropriate physical card and using that. Is the sell here something to do with security (not displaying the card number all the time)? Does this support temporary/ burner numbers?

2) I would like to know what target demographic, if any, that that ad was not intended to irritate.

Re: Plastc Card

#10

Post by sbenario » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

skorecky wrote: post #2

Wow, this will certainly give Coin ( https://onlycoin.com/ ) a run for their money.

I think the real question is who is more likely to ship an actual product.