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this is an eye opener

Time to start lining your wallets with lead(or some other metal)

oh no! What is the world coming toooo?

they say it's the $20 bills, not $1.

gota mcrowave? does anyone wanna try this? i'm sceptical.

wouldn't you be able to feel the RFID tag in the bill?
surely they arn't THAT small. (the tags i've seen in libery books or store items are at least 0.5mm thick imo)

I doubt that the library has the technology or the financial resources to match government ability.

It's a hoax.

Mobius, you think everything is a hoax.
Remind me not to experiment with money anymore, they may start putting magnesium in it.

Even if they installed RFID tags in cash, it's not like they could track it around the world. Passive RFID has a range of ~5m. Meaning that it's useful for detecting counterfeits (pass the bill through a scanner, no beep = not real).

So the $30M ad campaign for the $20 bill wasn't actually spent on ads... ... hmm.

DCrazy wrote:Even if they installed RFID tags in cash, it's not like they could track it around the world. Passive RFID has a range of ~5m. Meaning that it's useful for detecting counterfeits (pass the bill through a scanner, no beep = not real).

That's what they're telling you. I'm not saying it isn't true, but I'm also not ready to assume they can't track them either.

i've read about some interesting technologies that can do what Red Pheonix suggests. it's so cheap and small that the usa navy is looking into this technology to put on EVERY SINGLE ITEM IT OWNS so that it can take easier inventorys.

it's been a while since i read about it, but i remember it involves using static as a carrier signal.

What's what "they" are telling me? Passive RFID (the kind that functions without its own power source) can only function within ~5m of a reader. This is per Texas Instruments. What "They" (I assume you mean the T-men) are saying is that there is no RFID; I'm saying that if there is, it's passive and therefore can't be tracked around the world. However, it can be tracked at certain points, or -- its most likely use -- used as an anti-counterfeiting measure.

The only people who have any real concern are counterfeiters. "Tracking" would be the same as recording the serial numbers that uniquely define every dollar bill produced.

i be hereby saying, that DC doth seem to know thyn ★■◆●.

it is a pretty novel idea for non-counterfiet money. but it just seems so easily copied. it's only an electronic component afterall.

I repeat. It's a hoax.

It is confirmed.

You can now return to your normal paranoia.

I just got a new $20 from the ATM, so I microwaved it for a minute. It got warm.

Good thing those ATMs don't dispense poodles, huh?

you gonna prove what you say Mobi or are we just gonna write that off as another crackpot comment of yours?

Confirmed where Mobi?

You know sometimes I don't know if you guys are screwing around with Mobi or actually being serious.

Mobi's a sheep, it's easy to screw with a sheep...just need a good pair of hip boots