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It would be more fun to have card balance in BTC. I do not know how fast will it be to load the card with new BTC.

Card balance can be kept in BTC, according to the IRC logs at least. It's an international card so it can apparently hold balances in multiple currencies at once. Also, according to the logs, BTC transactions < $1,000 USD will be accepted on the first confirmation, so about 10 minutes to load the card.

Can you quote user bitinstant from the IRC log on this. I see only the following:

> <bitinstant> JimN, the card is denominated in USD, EUR, GBP so far

<ThomasV_> bitinstant: is there an option to keep the deposit as BTC until the card is used to make a payment or withdrawal?

<bitinstant> ThomasV, yes

Then later...

<sharpfocus> so the card can have fiat and btc on it concurrently presumably

<bitinstant> sharpfocus, yes precisly

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