The Onion @midwest.social merridew @feddit.uk 1 yr. ago

Man who spent all his money on NFTs fails to pay his gas bill with JPEG of an ape

newsthump.com Man who spent all his money on NFTs fails to pay his gas bill with JPEG of an ape

As news emerged that the NFT market has all but collapsed, leaving millions of NFTs effectively worthless, a man who spent all of his life savings on NFTs, convinced they would make him rich, has s…

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It’s usually pretty easy to buy gas with pictures of apes
- Wtf did you just copy and paste my wallet? Stop right there criminal scum
  
  You wouldn't download a dollar bill... would you?
  
  Not a million years! I downloaded the $100 and $50 bills, respectively.
  
  You have $188? Show-off
- Hey! Those are great apes, man. Let’s not minimize them.
- Wow, haven't seen a $2 bill in ages.
  
  We need to bring them back, lots of things are $1.xx, and very few things are under $1. If anything, we should get rid of the $1 bill and mint more $1 coins.
  
  This sent me down a rabbit hole wondering why I haven't seen one in so long. This in particular was interesting to me:
  
  The public didn’t want to use these bills, so the Federal Reserve found a way to recover the cost of printing. From World War II until at least the 1980s, you could find sweet old “Tom” getting a workout in Military pay envelopes, USOs, Post Exchanges, commissaries, and wherever you find soldiers.
  
  Because the last time I remember seeing one was as a kid in the 80s at the Army base in Grafenwoehr, Germany - I found it on the floor of the small arcade in the cafeteria there. That was worth 8 video game plays!

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