The days of pulling a crumpled $20 bill out of your wallet may be numbered. The U.S. Treasury has officially greenlit a sweeping monetary overhaul that will replace all paper currency with a combination of government-issued cryptocurrency and physical gold coins by 2027. Read More: Warren Buffett Has Become the World's First Trillionaire -- Shocking Musk and Bezos Find Out: How Middle-Class Earners Are Quietly Becoming Millionaires -- and How You Can, Too The plan calls for a full phase-out of paper money in favor of two new official forms of payment: TrumpCoin, a blockchain-based digital currency, and a line of gold coins embossed with the president's likeness in denominations of $5, $20, $100 and what the Treasury memo describes simply as "the big one." "It's a tremendous idea, maybe the greatest monetary decision in the history of this country, and that includes a lot of very good decisions," President Trump said at a press conference Tuesday. "Gold is real. Crypto is the future....
Trump announces plan to move off of paper currency by 2027
Yeesh, even with you explicitly pointing out that it was an April Fools joke, I fucking fell for it. What a ridiculous reality we love in that this is plausible.