Woz prints $2 bills

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12 points·coolvoltage··6 comments

The host does a terrible job. He's not printing the money. Woz is buying uncut sheets of legit $2 from the Mint and then having them perforated and bound. They are legal tender because they were printed by the Government.

Is it? Because what i understood from the video was that he buys the paper from the Mint and prints $2 on them. I thought it made sense because Woz said "I am not sure if its the right president on the note". Woz even talked about high quality printers which he uses.

Nothing Woz says in the interview is false, but he's being very careful in what he says.

He buys uncut sheets from the treasury, pays a printer to make them into pads and so on, and then sells them to random people at a loss just for the fun of playing with their minds :-)

"By law it's legal tender" - true because they're genuine "I get a printer [...] to make these pads" - they make them from genuine bills "I'm not sure if it's the right President" - white lie, it is "The serial numbers look suspicious" - yeah because they're sequential

Here is a more detailed account. http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html

TL;DW

He bought sheets of $2 bills from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Then he perforated these sheets and glued them to pads.

So he didn't really "print" them, but just modified them.

Still funny.

He sells a sheet of 4 for $5. I would buy those all day long ;-)

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