Here my first Canadian dollars ready to be unleashed!
This clean place in the corner exist on all Canadian denominations and is perfect to write something.
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This clean place in the corner exist on all Canadian denominations and is perfect to write something.
For efficiency and quality control, perhaps a custom ink stamp is in order.
Maybe include a cheeky message as well:
[WARNING! Obsolete Currency. Replace with Bitcoin.]
Maybe include a cheeky message as well:
[WARNING! Obsolete Currency. Replace with Bitcoin.]
That's a good idea, and I like the notion of a cheeky public service message instead of merely "bitcoin.org" by itself. Perhaps a quote like this:
The Conspiracy wants you, children. Oh, it wants you bad.
After I first saw "They Live" in late 1990, I had a rubber stamp made reading "THIS IS YOUR GOD" in big block letters of a size suitable for US banknotes. I'd stamp every one of the things that came through my hands for a year or two after that.
Nowadays I walk into a Tesco in Slovakia and buy something upstairs with a €10 note, getting a fiver back plus some coins. Unbeknownst to me, the five-euro note has a small tear on one corner. Take that note downstairs in the same Tesco, right afterwards, and try to pay for something and they'll refuse to take it. Sorry, you'll have to go to the bank ---and show ID--- to get the bloody thing replaced. Useless fucks.
So, my thought for this little bit of guerrilla marketing: Get a *small* rubberstamp made reading "bitcoin.org". Get some blue ink and dilute it down to something approaching the background of the €5 note. Stamp in an area where the mark won't be obtrusive, and not near the major security features. Make piles of them. Plenty will pass with no scrutiny at merchants, and at the end of the day you can always get a banked friend to take the pile you got tired of to his/her bank and ask for replacements, complaining that they've been collecting in the shop till.
After I first saw "They Live" in late 1990, I had a rubber stamp made reading "THIS IS YOUR GOD" in big block letters of a size suitable for US banknotes. I'd stamp every one of the things that came through my hands for a year or two after that.
Nowadays I walk into a Tesco in Slovakia and buy something upstairs with a €10 note, getting a fiver back plus some coins. Unbeknownst to me, the five-euro note has a small tear on one corner. Take that note downstairs in the same Tesco, right afterwards, and try to pay for something and they'll refuse to take it. Sorry, you'll have to go to the bank ---and show ID--- to get the bloody thing replaced. Useless fucks.
So, my thought for this little bit of guerrilla marketing: Get a *small* rubberstamp made reading "bitcoin.org". Get some blue ink and dilute it down to something approaching the background of the €5 note. Stamp in an area where the mark won't be obtrusive, and not near the major security features. Make piles of them. Plenty will pass with no scrutiny at merchants, and at the end of the day you can always get a banked friend to take the pile you got tired of to his/her bank and ask for replacements, complaining that they've been collecting in the shop till.
Here my first Canadian dollars ready to be unleashed!
Excellent! Glad to see this notion has wings.
In the meantime, I've so far spent some half a dozen individual euro notes decorated thus, without any trouble. Over here in Germany, it's only the €100 and larger bills that receive close scrutiny wherein the illicit scribbling could be a problem, so it would seem safe enough to process any and all smaller notes as a matter of course. I now carry a pencil with me for that purpose.
Here my first Canadian dollars ready to be unleashed!
Oh great...
Now everyone will think Sir Wilfrid Laurier invented Bitcoin and the Liberal Party of Canada is the central authority!
Here my first Canadian dollars ready to be unleashed!
I just LOVE this idea!
Yesss.
For efficiency and quality control, perhaps a custom ink stamp is in order.
Maybe include a cheeky message as well:
[WARNING! Obsolete Currency. Replace with Bitcoin.]
Here's an example of a stamp I had made for use around the office:
For efficiency and quality control, perhaps a custom ink stamp is in order.
Maybe include a cheeky message as well:
[WARNING! Obsolete Currency. Replace with Bitcoin.]
Here's an example of a stamp I had made for use around the office:
is quickly & easily erasable in case the payee gives you any grief regarding your illicit graffiti 
Seem like a good time for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH_StQ6KdW0
"This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Sorry about that."
But the title It Wasn't Me by Shaggy feat RikRok gives a hint as to what you meant
is quickly & easily erasable in case the payee gives you any grief regarding your illicit graffiti
Seem like a good time for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH_StQ6KdW0
Thanks, had not seen that! Glad that others have already had the same idea.
I've also submitted this to /r/Bitcoin at:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11glvr/guerrilla_marketing_for_bitcoin_on_a_20_note/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11glvr/guerrilla_marketing_for_bitcoin_on_a_20_note/
Many thanks to Gatorhex for the following ingenious guerrilla marketing idea:
For my part, I have just gone ahead and implemented this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's a sample:
I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is quickly & easily erasable in case the payee gives you any grief regarding your illicit graffiti
A good reason to always carry a pencil with you!
Note: in case you would like to do this for the paper money in your own wallet, you should be aware of the high likelihood that the powers that be would consider it an offense against their claimed monopoly on legal tender issuance and regulation in your particular geographic neighborhood. Proceed at your own discretion and risk.
Assuming there is no law against defacing your money (there probably is for fly posting) just write "bitcoin.org" on all the debt notes that pass through your hands then everyone who uses the money will see it.
For my part, I have just gone ahead and implemented this for all the euro notes currently in my wallet. Here's a sample:
I experimented a bit with different writing instruments, and in the end would recommend using a pencil. It works and looks better (at least on euro notes) than a ballpoint pen, doesn't permeate to the other side of the note as a felt tip pen would, and is quickly & easily erasable in case the payee gives you any grief regarding your illicit graffiti
A good reason to always carry a pencil with you!
Note: in case you would like to do this for the paper money in your own wallet, you should be aware of the high likelihood that the powers that be would consider it an offense against their claimed monopoly on legal tender issuance and regulation in your particular geographic neighborhood. Proceed at your own discretion and risk.
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