I've seen people try to spend bills that were obviously made on an inkjet printer.
Sadly, I've seen people that worked for the family owned bar accept bills that were obviously made on an inkjet printer. High rag content paper feels like real money and in dim light with an element of urgency (lots of people waiting for a drink) it's sometimes easy to miss.
Then there are those "magic pens" which are supposed to detect fake bills but actually just detect low quality (high starch) paper. James Randi, in his wild, younger days, would spray real bills with spray starch to cause a little chaos at the bank.
> James Randi, in his wild, younger days, would spray real bills with spray starch to cause a little chaos at the bank.
Terrifyingly devious while causing no physical harm. I wonder if pranksters these days are just as imaginative. Or perhaps the environment is less conducive toward appropriate penalties.
There’s also the potential that those people are in on it, attempting to launder money - “cheap drink, $20 counterfeit, $17 in real currency as change"
Chao said that he’d once held high hopes that the exchanges would run smoothly from the beginning, but that those hopes had been dashed. “The time for debating about the size of the text on the screen, or the color, or is it a world-class user experience, that’s what we used to talk about two years ago,” said Chao. “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.”
He's making five figures a month from this (Hack-a-day) site, putting that back into other startups, looking to get half a million out of it, and wants a designer to work for him FOR FREE!?
Yeah, now I'm even happier that I decided to keep my money.
If by then we have the technology to refuel the sun, we'll probably also have the means for interstellar travel. I'm betting we leave this joint for somewhere more hospitable.
