Questions tagged [currency]
object with a widely-recognized value accepted as payment for goods and services.
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Is it illegal to refuse US currency for a purchase?
I hear this claim every now and then. That US currency is legal tender and that it is illegal to not accept it.
The most recent example of this was on an old episode of 30 Rock: The head and the hair....
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Does a customer have the legal right to receive change in whatever denomination they want if the cashier can cover it?
I am a cashier at a gas station in California and I recently had a customer put me in this situation. They prepaid for $50 in gas with a fifty dollar bill and filled their car. They had $19 in ...
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Is it possible to identify where Euro banknotes are from?
Some websites claim that you can know which country printed an euro banknote, by looking at the serial number. Is that technique fool-proof ?
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Is the US $20 bill the most counterfeited?
In a comment on "Is it illegal to refuse US currency for a purchase?", @Dan Neely said
I don't think the main reason many businesses ban $50/100 bills is that they'd deplete their ability to make ...
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Is the Satoshi Nakamoto outed by Newsweek the creator of Bitcoin? [closed]
Earlier today, Newsweek outed a 64-year-old Japanese-American engineer Satoshi Nakamoto as THE Satoshi Nakamoto who invented Bitcoin. But the article provides little more than circumstantial evidence ...
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Can Currency Notes be tracked with GPS?
There is this news about Currency Note Tracking with GPS using something called nano-GPS chips? Is this possible to track currency notes using GPS?
Can Currency Notes be used as a reflector for GPS?
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Can governments destroy the value of Bitcoin, if they wanted to?
Note that this is a question about Bitcoin that is separate from my other question, which had asked whether Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme.
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, claims that the governments ...
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Did the INR/USD exchange rate experience a spike around Oct-Nov 2023?
If we look at Google search's graph of INR/USD exchange rate, there is this big spike somewhere around October or November 2023.
Did this happen for real, or does Google have buggy data?
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