Comment by dalbasal

>> whenever you start a new payment scheme - because you are doing precisely this! - you WILL have to follow banking laws and regulations

Sure. Problems problems. The FTX coin reference was supposed to tongue-in-cheek over specifics. Yes payment systems have payment system problems.

My point is that these cards have all sorts of potential uses. They're a programmable physical tokens that display a fixed image until updated by physical contact with the plinth. Playing cards are just one set of use cases. The device itself is more general than that, potentially.