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Maksim Petriv
@talkaboutdesign · Founder of Design Hunt
I'm still waiting for my Coin 1.0
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Dylan Hulser
@dhulser · Biz Dev, @Adzerk, Prev: @reddit
i feel like i'm the only person that hasn't had issues with their Coin 1.0... Everyone I talk to says they have issues, but mine has always been fine. I had the Beta originally, and that had tons of problems. Once I got 1.0 they were all solved though. It's even been through the laundry twice....
Steven Rushing
@steven_rushing · Co-Founder of Patent Monk
Coin user here. Honestly, it's not as good as advertised. When I first got my hands on it, I decided to keep a credit card in my wallet just in case. That turned out to be an incredibly wise choice.
All in I'd say it works ~70% of the time. The registers and swipes it hasn't worked, have been for a variety of stores and machines. I've noted many of them dow… See more
Markiyan Malko
@markiyanm
I've had my Coin for a couple months and basically don't bother using it at this point. I would say I had a 50/50 shot of getting it to work at stores and the initial set up to get the cards in was brutal as well since the card reader provided is so cheap and flimsy that it took 50 swipes to get each card in there. Hope version 2 is better but based of versi… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Another great video by Sandwich Man, @lonelysandwich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Sx34swEG0
The new Coin, which received a ton of hype and pre-orders when the first iteration was revealed, is NFC and is EMV-compatible so you can tap to pay. It's also faster and thinner.