no. physical currencies have a more complex formula on a good “cost vs use” ratio. it’s usually many years of use to justify spending any amount of resources on a physical currency, otherwise the currency would collapse under its own weight of having to create itself

sorry, was assuming this was broader than just federal. thanks for clarifying

a nickel (0.05$) costs 14 pennies (0.14$) to make

do you think would influence developers to make their projects open source, with more leaning towards copy left licenses? they won’t make much money off the code alone anyways, so might as well try to make others not profit either

certain states banned them. this would federally make it illegal to ban them at the state level, as far as I understand. you know, states’ rights and all