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by chinpokomon 4418 days ago
There's also the Google Wallet Card [1]. Yes, it is still a card with a PIN, but it is tired to a limited access account that can be loaded in seconds from your phone. This provides additional safeguards in that the attacker can only gain access to what you've loaded, but the Google Wallet app will also send a notification to your device when it has a transaction - usually before my card is handed back to me. If the card were ever compromised, such as using it at Target when they were cracked, it is very easy to request a new card and invalidate the old one.

[1] https://wallet.google.com/cardRequest