How could anyone trust a company to do this after Coin sold their "preorders" without producing a single working unit?
Plastc Card
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#32They say this supports chip-and-PIN, but I don't believe them until they explain how. If I have a chip-and-PIN card from my bank, the chip has an unreadable secret used to generate one-time cryptograms to verify the authenticity of the card. There's no way to get that secret onto my Plastc card. You'd need partnerships with banks to get a new secret the way Apple Pay does. Without those, this sounds like it'll be use…
That's exactly what I came here to say - if this can do chip and PIN, then can't we assume chip and PIN is broken? Cloning a mag stripe is trivial, cloning chip and PIN should be as close to impossible as is feasible.
Smart cards (and NFC) are designed to make it nearly impossible to extract the private key/encryption keys.
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#33I am leery of pre-ordering unproven but fancy looking items given the history of many kickstarter projects. I would love to buy one if they actually make one.
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#34A credit card that requires charging?
Haha, no.
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#35What need does this address? Are cards taking up too much room in people's lives?
This solution doesn't reduce the height or width of the encumbrance at all, and reduces the depth only by n*.76mm, where n is the number of cards that will be replaced. I don't get it.
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#36I do agree that the process of selecting a card on the device is a bit more tedious than just pulling one of my 3 cards out. But the idea of having less bulk in my wallet - or - not caring one at all is pretty exciting.
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#37What need does this address? Are cards taking up too much room in people's lives? This solution doesn't reduce the height or width of the encumbrance at all, and reduces the depth only by n*.76mm, where n is the number of cards that will be replaced. I don't get it. Also, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheZenOfProgramming
It commoditizes credit/debit/banking products, which isn't a bad thing.
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#38Wow, this will certainly give Coin ( https://onlycoin.com/ ) a run for their money.
I can't help to think this and Coin are each a solution in search of a problem. Do you know many people that use more than 3 cards regularly? If the norm was to have so many cards they barely fit in your wallet this would be perfect.
>> Do you know many people that use more than 3 cards regularly?
It's not so much about use as it is about carry. I may use only 3 cards regularly, but I carry 13 in my wallet. Most of the lesser used cards are ID I have little choice but to carry or loyalty cards for places where I shop.
_IF_ the claims about chip and pin capability are true, I'd be able to pull out at least half of the cards in my wallet, which would be a significant amount of bulk.
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#39What need does this address? Are cards taking up too much room in people's lives? This solution doesn't reduce the height or width of the encumbrance at all, and reduces the depth only by n*.76mm, where n is the number of cards that will be replaced. I don't get it. Also, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheZenOfProgramming
This and Vessyl feel like the harbingers of Silicon Valley doom. Products that solve no meaningful problem and cost orders of magnitude more than their 'dumb' alternatives. A waste of good brains.
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#40A credit card that requires charging? Haha, no.
Oh gods, that sounds like a horrible idea (the site is unavailable at the moment, so I can't see the list of features). Only slightly worse than the idiotic start-up idea that made the rounds two years ago, whereby all of one's cards could be combined into one (Oh goodie, if I lose one card, I lose EVERYTHING!).