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Bring it to your city
Bring it to your city
A Paper Penny program is deliberately small to start. A city needs three things:
- 1. A print run. These are physical paper pennies designed for your town. They are printed in a controlled batch to ensure every penny is accounted for from day one.
- 2. A handful of participating stores. Not fifty, but just a handful so the pennies have actual places to go. A main street with five willing counters acts as a network.
- 3. The ledger. This shared record tracks issuance and redemption. Stores, the city, and the public can all see the books to keep the paper promise honest.
This is the list. Residents do not need to install an app. There is no platform fee and no long contract.
If you'd like to talk about your town, as a councillor, a BIA member, a shop owner, or just a resident who thinks their main street would take to this, the contact path runs through mikeseiler.ca. Write what town you're in and what role you play, and you'll get a straight answer about what a first conversation looks like.
Your town starts as exploring. It earns pilot the honest way.
The Paper Penny is a proposed program. No city has adopted it yet. Owen Sound, Ontario is the proposed first pilot.
Paper Penny is a proposed community project by Mike Seiler (mikeseiler.ca), built on the map.ca stack. It is not legal tender, not a Royal Canadian Mint product, and not yet live in any city. PaperPenny.ca: the program