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Paper money is pretty amazing, beyond the strange suspension of disbelief involved in assigning some very abstract value to some relatively insignificant pieces of paper and cotton, but also for all the weird and unusual uses you can put it to. No, don’t worry, this is not the intro to our pyramid scheme pitch (although, [...]

Money is just money, after all, just silly pieces of metal and paper we’ve assigned arbitrary value to, so what’s the point in having it if you can’t have fun with it? One way to do just that is to treat the stuff as a medium rather than a means to an end, as the [...]