This won't be a long-term solution as the magnetic stripe is a legacy technology that's being phased out. Lots of US merchants already require the chip (if avai

This won't be a long-term solution as the magnetic stripe is a legacy technology that's being phased out. Lots of US merchants already require the chip (if available on the card) instead of a magnetic stripe, and almost all European merchants only accept chip cards (and don't even have a reader anymore for the magnetic stripe).