[lyall]

Funnily enough, this is very common in Japan via so called "e-money" stored value cards such as Suica[1], Pasmo, Waon, Nanaco. Those four you can even provision right now into Apple Wallet and load with money via a card if you've got an iPhone made in the last few years.

Accepting them in a sane payment system is a bit of a nightmare however.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica

[astrange]

Loading Suica with a foreign credit card was unfairly good because there was no fee and it’s coded as travel, so that’s maybe 5% back with the right card.

I say was because it’s currently broken apparently, as they switched payment providers to one that requires 3D Secure in an way Apple Pay can’t do.