My Love/Hate Affair with Crypto - AKA - Have Fun Staying Poor
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The concept of money has always been alluring to me — probably because I grew up with very little of it. Money played an outsized and overwhelmingly negative role for a good portion of my life. In grade 8 or 9 I remember coming to an epiphany: if I needed money I should go straight to the source. I promptly began an attempt to counterfeit money using a home printer/scanner and paper I bought from an art supply store (you obviously can’t just use standard printer paper). Even back in the early 2000’s scanners could detect that you were trying to scan legal tender and wouldn’t let you scan both sides of a bill, giving you a nice warning from the Secret Service — but you could just photocopy the bill and reorient the paper to line up both sides. Was it a garbage counterfeit? Yes. Was it better than I thought it would be? Yes.
My Love/Hate Affair with Crypto - AKA - Have Fun Staying Poor
My Love/Hate Affair with Crypto - AKA - Have…
My Love/Hate Affair with Crypto - AKA - Have Fun Staying Poor
The concept of money has always been alluring to me — probably because I grew up with very little of it. Money played an outsized and overwhelmingly negative role for a good portion of my life. In grade 8 or 9 I remember coming to an epiphany: if I needed money I should go straight to the source. I promptly began an attempt to counterfeit money using a home printer/scanner and paper I bought from an art supply store (you obviously can’t just use standard printer paper). Even back in the early 2000’s scanners could detect that you were trying to scan legal tender and wouldn’t let you scan both sides of a bill, giving you a nice warning from the Secret Service — but you could just photocopy the bill and reorient the paper to line up both sides. Was it a garbage counterfeit? Yes. Was it better than I thought it would be? Yes.