Spirals said:
Fun fact: The Spiral Coin™ was initially planned to be a competitor to the online currency "Bitcoin", but the R&D team stated that it would be too costly to bribe large websites into accepting the currency and scrapped the idea.

Excerpt from Spiral Co. Document 74C-015 - The "Spiral Coin™" Project

The second plan for the Spiral Coin™ was for the device to be mass-produced and spread through numerous Spiral Co. moles - each implanted in national mints, banks and other sections of the economy - in several G8 countries. From there, they would control the owner of the coin and make them want to invest in Spiral Co.

This plan was also scrapped once costs began to add up. It was costing roughly twenty times the worth of a single coin to make one and the project was put on hiatus. Production quickly halted, but many early editions of the coins were already produced and were kept for testing in case the project resumed.

These early models had trance-inducing capabilities, but had yet to have any preset commands, so anyone entranced by the coin would follow whatever they recognised as a 'command' while they were looking at the coin.

It was found that subjects under the influence of the Spiral Coin™ will stay in trance for up to a day after eye-contact with the coin is broken. The subject will remember their experience while hypnotised, but will not see anything odd with their previous actions. Subjects will react normally if asked to do repeat these actions while awake.

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