How else do you think this could possibly work? >you lose the psuedo-anonymity of Bitcoin (the card has your name on it) Nobody would ever allow anonymous card

How else do you think this could possibly work? >you lose the psuedo-anonymity of Bitcoin (the card has your name on it) Nobody would ever allow anonymous card transactions. The security risks with that alone are ridiculous. > It's a "debit" card, so it also has none of the protection of a normal credit card (eg: if someone steals my card or over-charges or whatever, my actual money is not touched). Nope. Debit cards have protection, as does a coinbase account. >It's not even real Bitcoin, it requires a Coinbase account My credit card isn't even real money either! >where, from what I understand, they manage your private key, so really own your bitcoins Thats not how that works. Its a transition between traditional cards and to new forms of money like crypto-currency.