On: Royal Mint to build ‘world first’ plant to turn UK’s electronic waste into gold

[themihai]

one reason would be the UK dumping forged money perhaps through 3rd parties? (i.e. like the Switzerland sold compromised crypto machines)

[pjc50 → themihai]

The kind of thing you only get to do once.

Well, maybe not entirely. War is an exception: http://www.psywarrior.com/BritishForgeriesWWI.html vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard (Nazi Germany forging British notes)