Sentences with phrase «use banknotes»

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It has been announced today that Swiss start - up Tangem is to release its pilot Bitcoin banknotes for use in Singapore.

The paper money wasn't trusted as being as good as the gold or silver coins or specie - backed banknotes that people were used to using.

Modern banks, even prior to the recent crisis, have generally had to keep somewhat higher reserve ratios than their pre-1845 Scottish counterparts, mainly owing to the fact, mentioned above, that they must stock their cash machines and tills with base money, instead of being able to do so using their own circulating banknotes.

Rape culture is when a woman who campaigned for women to be included on banknotes got threatened with rape for her troubles, and when she tried to do something about it, got accused of using the (violent, graphic, horrific) threats against her as a way to get famous.

Increasingly, people who are heading back to England, having spent time in Scotland and found themselves in possession of Scottish banknotes, are going to local banks and businesses and asking to have their Scottish notes changed to Bank of England notes, for fear that they will run into difficulty with the use of the Scottish notes back in England.

All Members will have seen Scottish banknotes, and some will even have used them daily, but few will have considered all the issues that are being aired today.

In 2002 University of Cambridge computer scientist Markus Kuhn discovered this technique is already used to prevent banknotes from being photocopied, but he says it would not work for 3D scanners as pirates could simply cover the marker with tape.

The CISPA app is based on the «Taint Tracking» method, which can be compared to the colorful dye explosion triggered in a bundle of banknotes, a technique often used to track bank robbers.

Polymer - based banknotes used in Australia and Canada have been found to be «cleaner,» meaning more resistant to dirt and bacteria, than cotton - based ones.

US banknotes are also accepted as legal tender, and Panamanians sometimes use the terms balboa / dollar interchangeably.

He was also father to the Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, famous for his portraits of aristocracy such as King George III and the Duke of Argyle (later used on the Royal Bank of Scotland banknotes)!

On a formal level, Montoya perfects his fabrication process, using artworks meticulously constructed of banknotes as aesthetic representations of his research and keen observation.

January 12 — March 1, 2008 Jac Leirner creates installations, sculptures, and mixed media pieces using everyday objects like business cards, plastic bags, cigarette packs and banknotes, which are meant to live in transit; they circulate within our society with their final purpose to be destroyed and taken out of circulation.

Completed using a mere three pieces — a classified ad, an installation with computer equipment / accessories and two banknotes photocopied onto «poetry paper» — the exhibition activates a series of questions on value - designation, currency circulation and putative cultural philanthropy.

Carolina Caycedo's Dependencia / Dependency (currency insertions)(2012), uses ink stamps on banknotes that carry the respective values of the minimum monthly wage, a gram of cocaine, and a liter of gasoline in six different cities (three Western and three Latin American) to show both the varied costs and question the means of establishing material values across a globalized culture.

In each photograph Muholi takes on a different appearance, using different forms of dress and props including scouring pads, banknotes, clothes pegs and a mirror to emphasise the different facets of herself as a black, African, queer woman.

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Fiat currencies are available in coins and banknotes, which can be used to facilitate transactions.

«The idea is that people could use fiat banknotes as a medium to transfer bitcoins, for offline Bitcoin payments.»

Like bitcoin and Litecoin many of cryptocurrency are use different algorithm.In the future the cryptocurrency will be take place of banknotes and coin and it was very helpful for us because we get does not carry banknotes and coin the simple digital transactions will more secure than banknotes and coin.

The purity of the River Test's chalkstream water is such that it has been used in the making of paper, and our banknotes in particular, for hundreds of years, while the sculpture through which the coloured path flows is what phytoplanktonic organisms look like when they bind together; chalk is formed of the skeletons of these Jurassic period creatures.