Chris just sent me this video:
This is a clever idea, and could serve as a stepping-stone to public acceptance of a local currency project. Here are two articles about the same idea:
Another idea to warm people up to local currency would be to create “Buy Local” gift cards, for use in any participating local store.
Wow, I seriously saw that appear in real time. This theme is spooky.
I think for this to work in Moscow, Tri State would probably have to pay their employees in $2 bills. Still, I thought the idea of the Storm Cellar paying its consignors this way was fun and maybe instructive.