Starting off with a clank

Traded in some folding greenies for my share of the latest batch of Good Ones this morning. Spent my first of Phase 2 in the vending machine just now.

Tender:1 Good One
Response: Resounding clank as it landed in the empty dollar coin bin
ACI: 0.0 from the soulless machine

Kicking off VBE Phase Two

Our box of Denver-minted Andrew Jackson dollar coins arrived today, and Mike has already bought his share. We will be running The Experiment the same as before, which requires participants to:

1. Relinquish all Bad Ones to a Bad One Containment Recepticle until the end of The Experiment
2. Exchange any Bad Ones obtained for a Good One from the personal stash
   
3. Use Good Ones in all circumstances just the same as using a Bad One

The goal of all of this? To get dollar coins into the local economy (part of The Plan) and to document the reactions of the recipients (making special note of Anti-Coin Ire). We aim to be both informative and entertaining.

I will admit that after Phase 1 wrapped up, it was a little underwhelming; there just wasn't as much Anti-Coin Ire out there as we expected. Perhaps this time around we'll try to get ourselves into more interesting situations.

MVB Update

It's been a long while since Phase One of the Experiment ended. We had planned on starting Phase Two shortly thereafter, but Martin Van Buren dollars never made it into the Direct Ship program. We all returned to using Bad Ones to pay for things.

It's been dark times.

But now the dust covers are coming off, and we will soon have a new set of Good Ones to stimulate the economy with. We've decided that Andrew Jackson dollars will be suitable for Phase Two, although we remain vigilant in our search for MVB dollars.

Stay tuned.