Steve Wozniak’s quirky 30-year tradition: Paying with his own custom $2 bills

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak, known for his inventive spirit and playful pranks, has maintained a delightfully eccentric habit for over three decades: using specially modified $2 bills as everyday currency. These rare notes, featuring perforated edges for easy tearing into sheets, stem from a bulk purchase Wozniak made long ago — not for counterfeiting, but purely for the joy of surprising cashiers and sparking conversations with his unconventional tender.
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Wozniak, 75, spoke about his quirky legal tender in a recently resurfaced 2011 interview with Engadget, during which he brought a pad of his custom bills on stage to show the audience.
“I got a printer in my hometown of Los Gatos, Calif., to make these pads for me,” he shared at the time. “I got them the supplies from a higher-quality printer, and they’re perforated so you can tear them off like Green Stamps.”
A close-up of the bills showed that they weren’t your average $2 bill, which features Thomas Jefferson and is made from cotton and linen. Instead, they’re stamped with his name, “WOZ.”
Wozniak doesn’t print these bills himself, as that would be illegal and is a federal crime. The tech co-founder instead orders real, uncut sheets of bills from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and then works with the California print shop to bind them into pads. He then adds perforations so the bills can be easily torn from the sheet.
“They meet the specs of the U.S. government. So by law, these are legal tender, I have been spending them,” he told Engadget, adding, “You can get arrested for them, you cannot get convicted because you’re in the right.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Woz being Woz.
Wonder how many of these bills are in circulation?

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