That is, in the many anti-counterfeiting things embedded in the bills is there a scannable feature that gives the bill’s serial number? Not optically reading the printed serial number but something like an RFID chip?
The US Treasury lists no RFID chips in US currency. Of course, the conspiracy-mined folks will say otherwise.
YMMV.
There are plenty of commercially-available RFID readers around, in every conceivable frequency. It would not be possible for the government to secretly put RFID chips into money and for us to not know about it, due to the nature of RFID.
Not yet. I imagine that the expense would be prohibitive.
Joe
Don’t be ridiculous. All those black helicopters have special RFID readers that can trace the movements of dollar bills from a height of up to 3200 miles. Every time a bill is passed from pocket to pocket, the transaction is stored in a database located where the gold used to be at Fort Knox. Someday we’ll have chips in dimes. In fact the dimes will be made of chips instead of nickel or copper or steel or dimeonium or whatever dimes are made of. Remember, when everybody has a pocketful of chips we’ll finally be able to put terrorism to rest. And Facebook.
There are magnetic properties to the ink:
The Master.
Pipe down, citizen, and get in line to have the barcode tattooed on the back of your neck.