The headline is misleading. It's a bitcoin debit card only available for residents of some american states. The EU is discussing cracking down on virtual currencies and prepaid cards, so I doubt it's going to be offered to EU citizens. Besides, bitcoin debit cards are nothing new, a number of exchanges were already offering them but with high fees.
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There's not much really that they can do about it. This is just the manipulation coming from both the ones who control the governments and media. This could be added to the list of attempts to kill Bitcoin, so nothing surprising there. However, Bitcoin still needs more merchant adoption if you ask me. You can pay practically anywhere with a Debit card, but not with just Bitcoins and there's a difference there.
This will only really be true if deregulation occurs or a lot more places accept Bitcoin directly.
I concur.