Every penny goes to one person this month. You get nothing for asking anyone. That is the whole experiment. Not a charity, nothing here is tax-deductible, and nobody is paid for anything.
Day 1. One guy, one penny. The tree starts here. How this is counted →
The Copper Kingdom
Every 1,000 pennies collected lays one block. Bring all thousand yourself or bring one. The block looks identical either way, and that is deliberate.
The wall is empty. That is the honest picture.
DROP ONE. ASK TWO.
DROP ONE. ASK TWO.
The United States stopped minting the penny. The last one was struck on November 12, 2025, and there will be no more. The hundred and fourteen billion already in circulation are still legal tender and still spend. The bill to retire the cent for good has passed the House and sits in the Senate now.
The Treasury asked Americans to spend their pennies. Spend one on me.
Where the idea came from, and the whole plan →
Free. Costs nothing, moves nothing, and makes you a data point.
Sling some copper
No card, no checkout, no processor. These send straight from your phone to mine, and none of them charge a fee, so every penny you send is a penny that arrives. That is the only way this experiment is honest.
The penny is free and always will be. Real ones make this considerably more interesting to watch, and a number that moves is a better story than one that does not. They buy you nothing at all, which is the point.
Sending 250 pennies. No fee on any of these, so every one arrives.
Places to go from here
2-for-Twosdays
Everything doubles. Drop two pennies instead of one, and ask four people instead of two. It is one extra penny and two extra names, one day a week.
Your Branch
Dave has not picked his up yet. Sarah turned into fourteen. The only page on this site that is only about you.
Copper Tickets
Write a first name, get a link, hand it over yourself. We never ask for their email and we never send anything.
The Plan
Where the idea came from, the four steps, and the five ways the number is wrong. Published because a figure nobody can check is worth nothing.
The Challenge
Everybody counts followers. Nobody counts who actually moves. The board says which audiences show up.
The only money nobody bends down for.
That is the whole reason this might work. A penny is beneath notice. Nobody refuses one, nobody weighs it up, nobody remembers giving it away. It is the smallest thing a person can be asked for and still say yes to without thinking.
So the question was never whether the arithmetic holds. One becomes two becomes four, and thirty rounds of that is more people than are alive. Everyone knows that part. The question is whether people do it, and nobody has ever put a number on the answer.
That number is at the top of this page. It updates as it happens, and it will probably be disappointing for a while.
It's a joke until it isn't.
Six degrees of Makin' Bacon! Let's Go!