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Comment by sciguy77 | Hacker News Reader

So I've got 3 so far: Coin, Wallaby, and Echo.

Hell, I think I'll build one this weekend, just to be included. :)

Someone posted Loop in another thread: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loop/pay-with-loop

While not as close to Coin as Wallaby and Echo, it feels like it belongs in the group. Can't wait to see these all in the wild!

Wow, thanks for sharing. Loop does away with carrying cards entirely and works with 90% of existing credit card readers - impressive.

There is a good history of this:

  1. Dynamics
  2. Geode (deadpool)
  3. Coin
  4. Protean Echo
  5. Omne Card
  6. GoNow Card
  7. Escardgot
  8. CardLab (http://www.cardlab.com/Mobile-Payment.html)
  9. QSecure (deadpool)

I'm going to build a service that let's you combine your combined cards

Well I'll get the last laugh because I'll be combining all the card combining combiners.

"Card combining combiner is intrinsically worthless and worth 500b dollars."

The future right here, looking forward to the IPO day.

Seriously. What's with the sudden surge of all of these one-card-fits-all startups?

Someone posted Coin, so everyone who knows of already in the works competitors are going to flood the homepage while the getting is good.

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