Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card

Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit... by ry0ohki on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:45PM (#6733837)

There's been another company working on this for many years: http://www.dynamicsinc.com/ I've seen the working models, they are decent, but it's a surprisingly hard problem.

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Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit... by viraj_shah on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:53PM (#6733918)

Also this: https://walla.by/the-wallaby-card

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Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit... by mik3y on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:08PM (#6734095)

Wallaby is a passive/proxy card, routing to a BIN range controlled by them. Cheaper to produce (it's just dumb plastic), more expensive to run (since they're sitting in the middle of each transaction) -- but that's also where they can build value.

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Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit... by leokun on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:02PM (#6734027)

I would totally pick wallaby over coin if they would put a picture of a wallaby on the card.

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Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit... by derstang on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:19PM (#6734201)

well if that's all it takes :)

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Re:Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit... by coudron on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:06PM (#6734630)

Their website hurts my eyes

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