>So yeah. They’re off by 50%.
Ah, that'll be the allowance for inflation/devaluation.
The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
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#12Here's the go-to for counting stuff in pictures of lots of stuff: https://countthings.com/ This would probably be a hard case for it! But would be cool to see how well it works.
Uh... in-app purchases for $24 for a 24-hour license? $80 pay-per-count? The AI marketing images... Ugh.
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#13This is a cool tool. Did the same thing (manually, just counted and switched colors whenever I hit 100) when I vacuumed up like a thousand yellow jackets from inside our walls. Couldn’t believe it when I hit 500, would have never estimated so high.
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#14I bet it’s not cash all the way through to make it look bigger
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#15There are additional stacks hidden by the aluminum framing. Everything is flush against the glass so there are a few more inches on each face not counted in the 102 figure.
That still wouldn't account for a 50% shortfall though?
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#16Do they claim it's packed solid all the way through?
not explicitly, but the implication is strong. otherwise the cube would be almost any size
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#19"What if it’s hollow? [...] A money shell. A decorative cube. A fiscal illusion. The world’s most expensive piñata"
lol
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#20There are additional stacks hidden by the aluminum framing. Everything is flush against the glass so there are a few more inches on each face not counted in the 102 figure.
That still wouldn't account for a 50% shortfall though?
It's not a shortfall.
The OP says it totals $1.5M ... and extra $0.5M