Injustice League of North Korea on defaced ₩ons
Noch mehr übermalte Geldscheine von Aslan Malik aus Berlin. Nach der JLA auf Dollars hat er diesmal Superschurken auf nordkoreanische ₩on gepinselt: Injustice League Of North Korea. (via Obvious Winner)
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Justice League of American Dollar Bills
Bankster whining about their Millions
Auf der unglaublichen Website eFinancial Careers erklären Bankster, warum sie mit ihren Millionengehältern nicht zurecht kommen. Tipp von dort: Monogamie und Freunde außerhalb der Branche, die läppische 25000 englische Pfund verdienen. Um dem wiederum ein bisschen Perspektive zu geben: Der durchschnittliche Banker bei den Verbrechern von Goldman Sachs hat letztes Jahr 676.000 Dollar verdient.
The best antidote to over-spending is to retain a single partner for life, said Cooper: it helps put things in context. Alternatively, try cultivating friendships outside of banking. “I always had a lot of hobbies which brought me into contact with people from different walks of life,” said Shapiro. “I always knew people who earned £25k-30k a year.”
When a million isn’t enough: why top bankers are struggling to get by
Tresor in Tokyo for Rent
Im Tresor feiern kann jeder, in einem Tresor leben nicht. In Tokyo vermieten sie grade einen Tresor als Wohnraum, kostet mit 2200 Dollar gar nicht so viel – zumindest hätte ich mit mehr gerechnet.
As luck would have it a chance to rent your very own bank vault has popped up as a listing on the Real Tokyo Estate website. […] It’s a spacious safe with 26.11 m2 of floor space including the lobby and safe with three chambers. The safe door is the real deal with one of those spinning handles and is dozens of centimeters thick. […]
The vault is located on the basement floor of a building which used to hold an undisclosed bank back in 1991. If I rented it I would just try to crack into it every day. Unfortunately, the rent is exorbitantly set at 207,375 yen (US$2,200), probably to keep nudnicks like me out.
Bank Vault for Rent in Tokyo, Perfect for Aspiring Robbers, 元銀行の本気の金庫、あります
Coin on a Treadmill
Youtube Direktcoin, via HYST
‘Ne Münze auf ‘ner Tretmühle, eine Stunde lang.
SPOILERS AHEAD: 06:09 to 08:50 attempts with another coin, all failing 10:12 an almost successfull attempt 10:50 failed attempts 15:13 a hand 15:24 a Parker 20:44 other attempts 24:08 a black ball 27:04 a white ball 38:48 Parker 39:09 a red straw 41:26 a laptop 41:50 camera moves 42:01 A CAT!! 52:47 camera moves, showing a window 53:08 fingers 57:12 coin falls off 57:47 threadmill stops 58:27 Parker draws conclusion and lesson about life. Thanks for this action-packed adventure, Parker!
Justice League of American Dollar Bills
Schöne Spielerei von Aslan Malik aus Berlin: Justice League Of America auf Dollarnoten. Aus irgendeinem Grund fehlen Aquaman und der Martian Manhunter. (via Obvious Winner)
The Macroeconomics of Smaug
Wunderbare Serie von Postings, zusammengefasst beim New Statesman, über den Makroökonomischen Effekt von Smaugs Goldraub an den Zwergen, die den Aufstieg Saurons unter anderem auch damit erklären, dass nach Smaugs Tod und die Rückführung des Zwergenschatzes in den Wirtschaftskreislauf eine Hyperinflation einsetzte. Ich liebe diesen Scheiß!
The Macroeconomics of Middle Earth: The full economic impact of Smaug can only be understood by recognizing that the dragon’s arrival resulted in a severe monetary shock… It is clear from a simple inspection… that the amount of gold coinage Smaug withdrew from circulation represents a significant volume of currency. This would, inevitably, lead to deflation and depressed economic activity.
Bond Vigilantes’ Jim Leaviss contributes his own thoughts on the monetary impact of a Wyrm:
So Smaug dies in the end, and the gold was released into Middle Earth’s money supply. Was there hyper-inflation as a result? Or did Nominal GDP return to trend (i.e. the “catching up” theory that has been talked about by Central Bankers like Mark Carney lately) without longer term inflation problems? If there was hyper-inflation perhaps the political instability that resulted allowed the rise of Sauron as a leader, and the subsequent world war between Men and Elves, and Orcs?
Smaug the dragon’s monetary tightening – The Hobbit and macroeconomics (via MeFi)
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Calculating Smaugs Treasure
Rappers on Instagram
Rapperz on Instagram: „A rare glimpse into a world of money, bitches, drugs, bling and, well, not a lot else.“ (via Sara)
The Cure for Greed extracted from 10.000 Dollar
Sehr tolles Projekt von Diddo: Für The Cure for Greed hat er 10.000 Dollar geschreddert, die Tinte aus den Geldscheinen extrahiert und bietet die in 5ml-Dosen und 24 Karat Gold-Spritzen in einer Box aus Mahagoni als Heilmittel für die Gier an. Fantastisch!
Vimeo Direktkarat, via DeJoost
Intricate mechanical and chemical separation is needed to extract and recover pigment from US currency. The ink is then re-stabilized, divided into individual doses and packaged into medical vials.
About the object
Each personally monogrammed custom-made mahogany or walnut box contains:
- One 24-karat gold plated syringe.
- One 5ml crimp-sealed serum vial containing one dose of stabilized pure dollar ink mechanically and chemically recovered from approximately $10,000 in US currency.
- Two 24-karat gold plated needles.
Diddo kennt Ihr unter Umständen bereits durch seine Gucci- und Vuitton-Gasmasken, die seit Jahren immer wieder durchs Netz gehen.
Official Mandela Banknotes
Vimeo Direktmandela, via Quipsologies
Südafrika bekommt offizielle Mandela-Geldscheine, das Design kommt vom Am I Collective aus Kapstadt: „TVC to introduce the new South African bank notes. The concept is moments of Nelson Mandela’s life etched onto paper. Each etch represent a key moment in Madiba’s life. The illustrations was done to interpret these scenes based on the new bank notes.“
High Frequency Trading in Super Slow Audio
Fantastischer Podcast der BBC, die High Frequency Trading extrem verlangsamen und mit Usain Bolts 100m-Lauf vergleichen. Der Pistolenschuss beim Start des Rennens dauert in dieser Verlangsamung 4 Tage, Bolts Reaktionszeit einen Tag. Einzelne Trades im HFT-System dauert circa eine halbe Sekunde. Wie gesagt: This won’t end well.
Last week Knight Capital lost a lot of money very quickly. It was the latest chapter in the story of something called ‘high frequency trading’. Investors have always valued being the first with the news. But high frequency trading is different: algorithms execute automatic trades, conducted by computers, at astonishing speeds. We ask: is the rapid growth of high frequency trading progress, or – as some think – a threat to the stability of the entire financial system?
How to lose money – fast! (MP3) (via Boing Boing)
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High Frequency Trading GIF’d
Extra Terrestrial Hobo Nickels
Hobo Nickel sind amerikanische 5-Cent-Münzen, deren Gravur „remixed“ wurde. Ist ‘ne alte Tradition und geht zurück bis Mitte 18. Jahrhunderts und populär wurden die Münzen während der 1920er Depression, als viele fahrende Arbeiter die Dinger machten (daher der Name). Kannte ich, wusste ich. Neu sind mir allerdings Alien- und UFO-Versionen davon.
This selection of extra terrestrial coins includes some of the most intriguing hobo nickels on Earth. If you’re not familiar, hobo nickels are any coin-not just nickels- of which the original carvings have been altered.
The practice of defacing coins dates back as early as the 1750′s when a man would make a “love token” for his lady by smoothing the coin and adding their initials. The art of hobo nickeling had a surge of popularity after the release of the Buffalo nickel since the large Indian head offered the perfect amount of space for creating a new scene and people had a lot of time on their hands due to the lack of jobs during the Great Depression.
EXTRA TERRESTRIAL NICKELS ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD (via Coudal)
Sid, the superstitious Trading Robot
Sing Tat Chung hat zusammen mit Bankern, Wahrsagern und Codern einen Fonds auf die Beine gestellt, der mit Sid, dem abergläubischen Investment-Bot das Geld von 155 Leuten (die rund 5000 Pfund zusammen einzahlten) an der Börse aufgrund von übernatürlichen Regeln investieren wird. Bei Preisen verkaufen, die die Ziffer 13 enthalten und solche Sachen. I love this! Von BBC Future:
The fund works like this: stock trades are carried out by an Automated Trading System (colloquially, a “robot”), which is a computer program that buys, sells or holds stocks based on a set of specifications encoded into the program’s governing algorithm. The code for Chung’s experiment was written by Jim Hunt, who runs a firm called Trading Gurus, and together with Chung they named it “Sid the Superstitious Robot”. (They also decided to make the source code completely transparent and free to download.)
Like many investment models, Sid is an automated speculator. But whereas other algorithms might take action based, for instance, on a stock’s recent performance or the price of oil, the criterion for this program are lunar phases and the affection and disaffection people have for certain numbers. “I wanted it to operate based on human characteristics,” Chung says.
Sid won’t buy anything on the 13th of the month, and steers clear of buying or selling any stock if its value happens to have a 13 in it. As for lunar phases, Chung explains with a hint of pride that the algorithm finds a new moon to be “good”, whereas a full moon is very, very bad. “The closer the moon is to being full, the more it effects us,” Chung says. So as the full moon approaches, the robot – instead of starting to grow claws and thick brown hair – sells more, as if it is nervous about the moon’s impact on multinational corporations and the decision-making capabilities of senior management. If you’re wondering how this automated yet temperamental trader handles an eclipse, one word: sell.
And get this: the robot’s beliefs evolve. People are constantly seeing correlations in the world and interpreting them as patterns that they can or should act upon. Sid also generates new, albeit irrational, beliefs and acts on them.
Superstitious Fund: Too mystic to fail
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Dadaras Tree made from Money
Bitcoin Vending Machine
Electrochemical Currency Exchange
Irish Artist builds a Home from 1,6 Billion shredded Euro
Exchanghibition Bank @ Occupy Amsterdam & Burning Man
Shredding Money in the Name of Art
Dadaras Art of turning Art into Money
Guerilla Banking: Money as Art as Money
Bitcoin Vending Machine
Schöne Arbeit von Max F. Albrecht an der Bauhaus-Uni in Weimar, ein Offline-Geldautomat für Bitcoins, im Bitcoin-Forum erklärt er, wie das Ding funktioniert und wie er das Teil ausbauen will:
For the summer exhibition of my fine art studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and in cooperation with our local hackspace I build a mechanical Bitcoin vending machine. It repurposes an used vending machine, takes your 1€-Coin and spits a little box containing a link to an easywallet.org webwallet containing 1€ (minus the material costs).
I think this project is of interest to the bitcoin community as I also try to explore the possibilities of Bitcoin POS systems and also the design of physical representations of Bitcoins and usability aspects.
Bitcoin Vending Machine – Exchange Euro coins for Bitcoin (wallets) (via The Verge)
50.000 Yuan Puzzle
Eine Dame aus China hat 50.000 Yuan (£4,920, $7,945) bei ihrer Bank abgehoben, um die Behandlung ihrer Geisteskrankheit zu bezahlen. Dann hat sie alle Geldscheine in kleine Teile zerrissen. My kinda girl.
Photo taken on May 3, 2012 shows staff members in the Sichuan branch of Bank of China try to splice the shreds of 50,000 yuan bank notes torn by a woman who suddenly falls ill. It took 6 hours for 12 bank clerks to successfully splice only one complete 100-yuan bank note. The money was originally meant for the woman’s mental disorder treatment
50,000 yuan bank notes torn by psychotic woman (via Arbroath)
