RFID in US Currency! New 20 Dollar bills "pop" in the microwave!!

It seems like such a fast march towards utter hell.

Has anyone here tried this? I can't spare a 20. :(

Its the metallic ink, not an rfid.

Right, I dont think this is BS, so I wont raise a flag


but what minimum wage employee after a long hard week/fortnight/month of work comes home and thinks well fuck, I think i'll microwave some 20s for dinner!

I call BS on that.. either he was payed for the story,
or he works on wall street and not a truckstop!

that's what I thought

Yes they do. The new 100's do too.

If you're going to travel in and out of the US with a lot of them, take yours and run them thru the microwave otherwise the fact that you've got thousands of dollars at risk of being confiscated at either US or foreign airports. For your own financial privacy, poping their little RFID chip in the micro is a great idea. There is no law that says those things have to be FUNCTIONAL. You can't control what the people who held those bills before you did may have done with them and therefore you cannot be held responsible for them!

I don't get it.
When I spend a 20 dollar bill nobody asks me my name. Nobody wants to know why I am buying what I am buying.

So when they say they can track our purchases just what are they talking about?

Now I can see this as a way to search you without cause. If it sets off the theft alarms, they can technically search you and God forbid you have anything illegal on you...gotta watch that for sure...

Thats what I was thinking. Tracking money would not do shit. They have no clue who is even using it. Lets just say that 1000000 20's are floating around with RFID's in them. They have no fucking clue who these people are that are holding them, they would just be tracking 1000000 pieces of worthless paper.

to catch the travellers with more then $10,000

They 'pop' because they are metallic, NOTHING more.