"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...
The new coin is still called "pound", so indeed the statement makes no sense.
The new £1 Coin
31–40 of 421 posts
Re: The new £1 Coin
#32Another possible recent security feature is a polymer ring: http://news.coinupdate.com/germany-introduces-next-generatio...
Re: The new £1 Coin
#33For a moment I thought/hoped the UK would introduce an official cryptocurrency...
... and call it britcoin.
Re: The new £1 Coin
#34As a UK citizen, it stuns me that one-in-thirty pound coins is a fake because a) i can't imagine how it's possibly worth it b) out of the thousands of pound coins i must have handled, I've never spotted a fake - they must be very good. Still, the new coin certainly looks nice!
You've never had a vending machine or self-service checkout reject a pound coin before? I've held ones which are noticeable lighter and more worn than a real one. You've just never really paid attention.
Re: The new £1 Coin
#35The website for the most secure coin in the world only gets a B rating from ssllabs: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.thenewpou...
It's ok, the coin will only connect to websites over an ethernet connection, and will only load a particular site if it can validate the full certificate chain.
A sufficiently crafted coin would be an interesting attack vector against a vending machine, for example. I'm interested to see how counterfeiters would be able to use a passive/active security device within the coin for potential gain.
Re: The new £1 Coin
#36"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...
I don't expect we'll be changing to the Euro any time soon.
Re: The new £1 Coin
#37How is this claim substantiated ? I fail to see any difference from the coins that are widely available around the world.
Re: The new £1 Coin
#38"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...
I read it with the meaning “the pound won’t be in use for long” at first which seemed rather incongruous. I was wondering whether there was something I had missed about happenings with respect to brexit (I’m Australian, never been to the UK). It took me a while to interpret it as “the shape of the pound is changing from a circle to a dodecahedron”.
If it meant that, I'd expect it to be:
"The pound won’t be around for much longer"
so the original sentence is sort of a pun. Maybe "around" is a local use of English.
Re: The new £1 Coin
#39"The pound won’t be round for much longer" is a pretty awful tagline, I'm not sure they realised what this sounds like...
The new coin is still called "pound", so indeed the statement makes no sense.
It won't be round though, it'll be dodecahedral. It makes perfect sense, but has two possible meanings.