Quote from: ErebusBat on October 21, 2012, 01:45:47 PM

Quote from: thechevalier on October 21, 2012, 07:51:52 AM

Quote from: casascius on October 14, 2012, 06:44:12 AM

Quote from: thechevalier on October 14, 2012, 05:36:23 AM

This is truly awesome.

But... what about the other side of the bill? I mean, it's going to look a bit lame if it's all super high design on the front and it's just white paper on the reverse.

Hypothetically, would you be more interested in a roll of toilet paper with decorations on both sides than one without? In a way, I still want these bills to be like toilet paper - thrown away after a single use. If we make them too pretty, people won't want to throw them away!

Hey, I just wanted to say, you're totally right.

I printed a bunch of these out on good 100% cotton paper and they are perfect. Now that I've actually used them a few times, I see the value of making them look nice but not too nice. Having designs on both sides is overkill. They are just about perfect -- it's no big rigamarole to print them, you don't feel bad writing on them, and they are durable enough for you wallet (on the cotton paper) but they still feel like single-use coupon style notes.

So glad to have these. Thanks!

While I agree with 100% of what you are saying I think that the 'throw away' blank back is an opportunity for education. Assume we had a good repeating pattern with the bitcoin logo and WeUseCoins.com at a diagonal (think the sponsor graphics behind people at press conferences).

You hand a bill to someone and they ask (WTF is bitcoin?) you can flip it over and they have all the info they need. It is also very easily customized for each person printing but doesn't tie a bill design to any given site. You could even use a mixture of sites if you wanted.

Another benefit to this approach is that it would be very easy to print if designed to either: 1) fill an entire sheet, or 2) just be bigger than the bills themselves. Then you just trim the bills as normal and don't have to worry about the background.

In fact there could even be a tiny opportunity to provide pre-printed linen paper for those who want to print there own bills.

This is a good idea, just print the pattern on one side, pop it in the printer again and print the bills