https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DontTreadOnMemeThe Austrian Economics Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-08-13T21:50:39ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.9https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19343Silver Dime Card2012-06-14T02:46:23Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
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<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:MONEYLITH_POSTCARD.JPEG|300px|thumb|The Moneylith postcard]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
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A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. They observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin but in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
The original Silver Dime Cards soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]], and it is the signature feature included to this day as both a technical and quality control tool.<br />
<br />
==Marketing==<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the projects [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting], [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info What Is This Coin Worth?], and [http://onceuponadime.info Once Upon A Dime] noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts, hoodies, and yoga shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!...Don't Tread On Meme - fashioning the silver economy.''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and supported [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter in the same style as [http://agoristmarketplace.com Agorist Marketplace].<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
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==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:MONEYLITH_POSTCARD.JPEG&diff=19376File:MONEYLITH POSTCARD.JPEG2012-06-14T02:44:18Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: The Moneylith postcard</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
The Moneylith postcard<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19342Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T11:26:50Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Exposure */</p>
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<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. They observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin but in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
The original Silver Dime Cards soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]], and it is the signature feature included to this day as both a technical and quality control tool.<br />
<br />
==Marketing==<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the projects [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting], [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info What Is This Coin Worth?], and [http://onceuponadime.info Once Upon A Dime] noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts, hoodies, and yoga shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!...Don't Tread On Meme - fashioning the silver economy.''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and supported [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter in the same style as [http://agoristmarketplace.com Agorist Marketplace].<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19341Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T11:16:49Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Conception */</p>
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<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. They observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin but in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
The original Silver Dime Cards soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]], and it is the signature feature included to this day as both a technical and quality control tool.<br />
<br />
==Marketing==<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the projects [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting], [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info What Is This Coin Worth?], and [http://onceuponadime.info Once Upon A Dime] noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts, hoodies, and yoga shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!...Don't Tread On Meme - fashioning the silver economy.''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19340Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T11:15:11Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Conception */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. They observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
The original Silver Dime Cards soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]], and it is the signature feature included to this day as both a technical and quality control tool.<br />
<br />
==Marketing==<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the projects [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting], [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info What Is This Coin Worth?], and [http://onceuponadime.info Once Upon A Dime] noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts, hoodies, and yoga shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!...Don't Tread On Meme - fashioning the silver economy.''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19339Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T11:13:37Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
The original Silver Dime Cards soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]], and it is the signature feature included to this day as both a technical and quality control tool.<br />
<br />
==Marketing==<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the projects [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting], [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info What Is This Coin Worth?], and [http://onceuponadime.info Once Upon A Dime] noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts, hoodies, and yoga shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!...Don't Tread On Meme - fashioning the silver economy.''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19338Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T11:00:25Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Conception */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] project noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts, hoodies, and yoga shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19337Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T10:59:17Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Conception */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
The marketing effort [http://donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began at Libertopia in November, 2011, when the founders of the [http://walletvoting.org Wallet Voting] project noticed a vendor selling shirts with the traditional Gadsen Flag snake and phrase, "Don't Tread on Me - or Anyone." They observed that this emphasis for compassion and mutual respect had the power to better market the advantages of libertarianism to the general public, and that by twisting the format of a familiar icon it could be made to once again grab the eye. This stirred them to experiment with fresh branding for the liberty movement, in what would later become T-shirts composed of cryptic stencils of subversive freedom themes and scannable QR codes. After observing the rapid pace at which the sylish Silver Dime Cards had taken on a collectible status within liberty subcultures, they concluded that the barter movement had become a 'meme,' as would later be explained in their radio advertisements:<br />
<br />
''A meme, a contagious idea that spreads within a culture. Nowhere is this more evident than in one's free choice in that most marketable of commodities: Money. Let us Austrians use Wallet Voting!''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19336Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T10:27:35Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /><br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19335Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T10:23:16Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010<ref name="DYE 1-31-11" /> to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was in aiding vendors at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 1-31-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/082955-2011-01-31-nick-barnett-and-drew-phillips-in-studio-for-2-hours.htm</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19334Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T10:12:44Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
One of the first large-scale tests for the Silver Calculator App was at the [http://freestateproject.org Free State Project's] annual Porcupine Freedom Festival in June, 2011.<ref name="Calculator PF 2011" /><br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support<ref name="DYE 7-14-11" /> on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad" /><br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000<ref name="5,000 DP Cards" /> Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<ref name="DYE 5-31-12" /><br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist|<br />
refs=<br />
<ref name="Liberty Dollar">http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 5-31-12">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/112633-2012-05-31-05-31-12-karl-grossman-coleen-rowley-gilles-laurent-edouard.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="DYE 7-14-11">http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/093378-2011-07-14-barry-hess-guest-host-drew-phillips-live-from-freedom-fest.htm</ref><br />
<ref name="Calculator PF 2011">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xl117qhpPo</ref><br />
<ref name="Goyette 60 sec ad">http://donttreadonmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlesDTOM60secad.mp3</ref><br />
<ref name="5,000 DP Cards">http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix</ref><br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19333Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T09:39:43Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Conception */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "current money" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident<ref name="Liberty Dollar" />. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. Don't Tread On Meme observed that if it were illegal to mint a coin resembling US Currency, one might as well simply use the original coin in imaginative ways. It has been suggested that trading in these pre-1965 "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a game-changing mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19332Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T09:26:28Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Silver Calculator App */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
In 2011 the [http://whatisthiscoinworth.info/ What is This Coin Worth?] project created a game-changing mobile app named "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] soon incorporated a link to the WITCW app by adding a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] to their signature Silver Dime Card backing.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19331Silver Dime Card2012-06-12T03:48:58Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [[Silver Circle]] movie project, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, [[Silver Circle]], the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, [[Silver Circe]], The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Circle]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19330Silver Dime Card2012-06-11T06:59:39Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* The Moneylith */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film [http://vimeo.com/43791029 ''2012: A Silver Odyssey''] written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Alternative Currency]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19328Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T06:40:52Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[Category:Currency]]<br />
[[Category:Money]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19327Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T06:37:36Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19326Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T06:33:20Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19325Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T06:32:05Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Open Source and Co-Branding */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. [http://www.lamonnaiesaine.org La Monnaie Saine], the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19324Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T06:28:09Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card by Don't Tread On Meme]]<br />
[[File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Bastiat 2012 Silver Dime Card by La Monnaie Saine]]<br />
[[File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg|300px|thumb|right|Daily Paul Silver Dime Card fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Daily_Paul_Dime_Card.jpeg&diff=19367File:Daily Paul Dime Card.jpeg2012-06-10T06:24:37Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Daily Paul fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
Daily Paul fundraiser by Freedom's Phoenix<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Carte_Franche_Bastiat_2012.jpg&diff=19366File:Carte Franche Bastiat 2012.jpg2012-06-10T06:16:59Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Carte Franche Bastiat 2012, by La Monnaie Saine</p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
Carte Franche Bastiat 2012, by La Monnaie Saine<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19323Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T05:05:09Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Exposure */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock]. Hancock recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19322Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T05:03:52Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Exposure */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs and established [http://freedomsphoenix.com/Front-Page.htm?EdNo=233 Wallet Voting] as a "Craigslist" for silver barter.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Alternative_Currency&diff=19363Alternative Currency2012-06-10T03:03:55Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
<br />
An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to [[Legal Tender]] which does. Users of an Alternative Currency might prefer accepting it not only for economic advantages (such as speculation in precious metals) or privacy advantages (such as the digital currency Bitcoin) but also for its political protest impact on the Legal Tender monopoly of the official State currency.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Bitcoin]]<br />
*[[Gold]]<br />
*[[Goldmoney]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Pecunix|Pecunix]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Dime Card]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Alternative_Currency&diff=19362Alternative Currency2012-06-10T03:02:30Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* See Also */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
<br />
An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to Legal Tender which does. Users of an Alternative Currency might prefer accepting it not only for economic advantages (such as speculation in precious metals) or privacy advantages (such as the digital currency Bitcoin) but also for its political protest impact on the [[Legal Tender]] monopoly of the official State currency.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Bitcoin]]<br />
*[[Gold]]<br />
*[[Goldmoney]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Pecunix|Pecunix]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Dime Card]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Alternative_Currency&diff=19361Alternative Currency2012-06-10T03:00:05Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* See Also */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
<br />
An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to Legal Tender which does. Users of an Alternative Currency might prefer accepting it not only for economic advantages (such as speculation in precious metals) or privacy advantages (such as the digital currency Bitcoin) but also for its political protest impact on the [[Legal Tender]] monopoly of the official State currency.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Bitcoin]]<br />
*[[Gold]]<br />
*[[Goldmoney]]<br />
*[[Pecunix]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Dime Card]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Alternative_Currency&diff=19360Alternative Currency2012-06-10T02:57:25Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
<br />
An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to Legal Tender which does. Users of an Alternative Currency might prefer accepting it not only for economic advantages (such as speculation in precious metals) or privacy advantages (such as the digital currency Bitcoin) but also for its political protest impact on the [[Legal Tender]] monopoly of the official State currency.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Bitcoin]]<br />
*[[Gold]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
*[[Silver Dime Card]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19321Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T02:56:11Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Alternative_Currency&diff=19359Alternative Currency2012-06-10T02:55:23Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Created page with "Category:Alternative Currency An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contras..."</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
<br />
An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to Legal Tender which does. Users of an Alternative Currency might prefer accepting it not only for economic advantages (such as speculation in precious metals) or privacy advantages (such as the digital currency Bitcoin) but also for its political protest impact on the [[Legal Tender]] monopoly of the official State currency.</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19320Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T02:52:24Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' is an [[Alternative Currency]] consisting of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
[http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, [http://www.donttreadonmeme.com Don't Tread On Meme] purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Alternative Currency]]<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Objects]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Category:Alternative_Currency&diff=19357Category:Alternative Currency2012-06-10T02:44:58Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Created page with "An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to Legal Tender which does. Users..."</p>
<hr />
<div>An '''Alternative Currency''', generally speaking, is a money circulating without official recognition or enforcement by a State, in contrast to Legal Tender which does. Users of an Alternative Currency might prefer accepting it not only for economic advantages (such as speculation in precious metals) or privacy advantages (such as the digital currency Bitcoin) but also for its political protest impact on the [[Legal Tender]] monopoly of the official State currency.</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19319Silver Dime Card2012-06-10T02:30:09Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Alternative Currency]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Objects]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19317Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T07:14:49Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Open Source and Co-Branding */</p>
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<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, the author Tarrin Lupo, and Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19316Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T07:13:17Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Exposure */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive spirit of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19315Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T07:12:16Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: /* Exposure */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. Don't Tread On Meme's tagline reflects the subversive theme of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19314Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:49:16Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. The tagline reflects the subversive theme of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19313Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:44:30Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as [http://shiresilver.com Shire Silver], [http://www.opencurrency.com American Open Currency Standard], [http://www.delvalleysilver.com Del Valley Silver], and [http://www.silvercirclemovie.com Silver Circle Movie], with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads. Multi-lingual versions are planned.<br />
<br />
==Exposure==<br />
<br />
The Silver Dime Card project found early support on the live syndicated radio show [http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Program-Page.htm?No=0001 Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock], who recognized the potential of the cards to extend the discussion of honest money beyond electoral politcs.<br />
<br />
Commercials aired during the show are narrated by Phoenix radio veteran [[Wikipedia:Charles Goyette|Charles Goyette]], author of Austrian-themed books ''The Dollar Meltdown'' and ''Red and Blue and Broke All Over''. The tagline reflects the subversive theme of barter culture: ''You can audit The Fed, You can end The Fed, but why not start by ignoring The Fed?''<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In March 2012, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website [http://www.dailypaul.com/223526/daily-paul-dime-card-drive-by-freedoms-phoenix The Daily Paul]. Subsequent fundraisers are planned.<br />
<br />
Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in January 2012 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film ''2012: A Silver Odyssey'' written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19312Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:20:12Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, left]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|Moneylith, right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19311Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:12:30Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, left]][[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Moneylith, right]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
{{TOC left}}<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19310Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:11:06Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{TOC right}}<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_right.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Moneylith, left]]<br />
[[File:Moneylith_left.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Moneylith, right]]<br />
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A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Moneylith_right.jpg&diff=19351File:Moneylith right.jpg2012-06-09T05:09:19Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Don't Tread On Meme</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
Don't Tread On Meme<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Moneylith_left.jpg&diff=19350File:Moneylith left.jpg2012-06-09T05:08:40Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Don't Tread On Meme</p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
Don't Tread On Meme<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19309Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:07:05Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
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<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]]<br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
{{TOC right}}<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19308Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:04:28Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
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<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]] <br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
{{TOC right}}<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Silver_Dime_Card_front2.jpg&diff=19349File:Silver Dime Card front2.jpg2012-06-09T05:03:45Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Don't Tread On Meme, Etsy store.</p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
Don't Tread On Meme, Etsy store.<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19307Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T05:00:12Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, front]]<br />
[[File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Silver Dime Card, back]] <br />
<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
{{TOC right}}<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Silver_Dime_Card_back.jpg&diff=19348File:Silver Dime Card back.jpg2012-06-09T04:53:26Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Don't Tread On Meme, Etsy store.</p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
Don't Tread On Meme, Etsy store.<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=File:Silver_Dime_Card_front.jpg&diff=19347File:Silver Dime Card front.jpg2012-06-09T04:52:19Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: Don't Tread On Meme, Etsy store.</p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
Don't Tread On Meme, Etsy store.<br />
== Licensing ==<br />
{{CC-BY-SA}}</div>DontTreadOnMemehttps://wiki.freecapitalists.org/index.php?title=Silver_Dime_Card&diff=19306Silver Dime Card2012-06-09T02:55:46Z<p>DontTreadOnMeme: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{TOC right}}<br />
A '''Silver Dime Card''' consists of one 90% Silver [[Wikipedia:Dime (United States coin)|Dime (United States coin)]] laminated within a credit-card sized plastic sleeve. The dime is accompanied by a paper insert often printed with graphics on the front and a conversion table on the back. The table is intended as a suggestion, to aid the holder in converting the price of bartered goods between [[Wikipedia:Federal Reserve Note|Federal Reserve Notes]] and the amount of silver within the card. Owing to the popularity and utility of the card, they often trade at values higher than the silver spot price.<br />
<br />
==Conception==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme began producing Silver Dime [and Quarter] Cards in 2010 to provide a smaller-valued unit to compliment the rise of precious metal barter and to create a convenient educational tool for [[Austrian School]] concepts such as [[Gresham's Law]], [[Inflation]], and [[Subjective Theory of Value]]. They were influenced by innovators such as Shire Silver, American Open Currency Standard, Del Valley Silver, and Silver Circle Movie, with whom they have found the cards to be a valuable marketing tool for the upcoming film and tenth-ounce silver rounds.<br />
<br />
Of particular influence to the Silver Dime Card project was the [[Wikipedia:Liberty Dollar|Liberty Dollar]], from whose prosecution the risks of advertising a new coin as "currency" with a [[Wikipedia:Face Value|face value]] became evident. For those reasons the Silver Dime Card was judged to be safer from legal challenge because it utilizes a [[Legal Tender]] coin and does not claim a certain value-in-trade. It has been suggested that trading in "junk" coins allows the transaction to be reported at a face value significantly less than market value.<br />
<br />
==Silver Calculator App==<br />
<br />
The signature addition by Don't Tread On Meme is a [[Wikipedia:QR code|QR code]] linking to their original mobile app "Silver Calculator" for Android and iPhone. It was conceived as a point-of-sale, live-update interface for precious metal barter. It has been continually updated to include international and nongovernmental coins and it has over 6,000 downloads.<br />
<br />
==Open Source and Co-Branding==<br />
<br />
Don't Tread On Meme have produced custom cards for liberty-supporting organizations such as Wheels Off Liberty Podcast, Freedom Feens Podcast, Freedom's Phoenix Digital E-Zine, Fr33 Aid, Porcfest 2012, Silver Circle Movie, and the author Tarrin Lupo.<br />
<br />
Within one year others were inspired to build upon the model. In 2011, Freedom's Phoenix created and sold over 5,000 Silver Dime Cards to raise funds for the website The Daily Paul. Silver Dime Cards can now be found circulating internationally. La Monnaie Saine, the "Bastiat 2012" [[Frédéric Bastiat]] fan group from Strasbourg, France, produces cards containing French silver coins with a conversion table for the Euro. In the same theme as Don't Tread On Meme, they advocate a peacful market-based transition away from troubled [[fiat currency]].<br />
<br />
==The Moneylith==<br />
<br />
To further promote the concept of silver as an affordable and accessible barter money, Don't Tread On Meme purchased a vending machine in 2011 with the sponsorship of silver dealers Roberts & Roberts Brokerage, Inc., along with Freedom's Phoenix, Silver Circle Movie, The Shire Society, Freedom Engineering, Shire Silver, Porcfest 2012, RTR.org, and Antiwar.com. The machine became a prop for economic and political "street theater" at events such as Ron Paul campaign appearances and liberty conferences. Due to the black monolithic appearance and its purpose as a "sentinel" for economic evolution, it became the inspiration for a web-based featurette film "2012: A Silver Odyssey" written as an allegory to the film [[Wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|"2001: A Space Odyssey"]].<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
*[[Buy Silver – Crash JP Morgan]]<br />
*[[Gresham's Law]]<br />
*[[Inflation]]<br />
*[[Legal Tender]]<br />
*[[Silver]]</div>DontTreadOnMeme