Silver for bartering. Gold for BUYING or PAYING OFF a debt. If we go into any money crisis and that could mean no internet, electricity, hard assets like your PMs could get you out of a tight spot. You should have already stacked food, water, baby needs, fuel - like firewood, meds, pet needs etc. Silver will allow you to barter for those things like a ham radio, more ammo, that perhaps you didn’t get around to getting before a crash. Gold on the other hand could pay off your mortgage, move to a more secure location, etc. If I was in America, I would be seeking cheap, out of the way land. we watched a guy who spent $9000 on land with 40 acres, in a secure location. He bought in 3 containers. Fenced the property. Didn’t say he put in security but I bet he did. He put down a well. Solar, and totally fitted the house out with new appliances and furniture. He cashed in some crypto as he was working part time and working on property and felt the urgency to get it done. The total cost INCLUDING LAND?? $81,000.00 ! That’s amazing and he owns it. If you had family, that all felt the same way, on 40 acres that would give each family - say 3 or 4 - a good chance. Community is vital!! You could run goats and chickens instead of cattle and they could supply milk, meat and eggs. I’ll find the video and will link it. But $81,000. That’s amazing!!
If you know, my dude, explain crypto to me. I see it as an NFT type thing that is just a token with a certain monetary value to it. Basically just an over-hyped stock.
That;s it - I don;t really understand Crypto as they are now. What gives them value? To me they just seem like an alternate fiat currency that is outside the control of the central banks but they are still fiat in that they only have value because people believe they have value. If the cryptos were valued based on hard assets, and had the security of the block chain to keep them from being manipulated - THEN I would understand them.
It doesn't matter it it has value or not, the bottom line is if you agree with each other that THIS thing represents your efforts and goods for trade then it's currency. People traded with sticks with notches cut in them for a time because the king created them and ordered that only they could be used to pay taxes, and they worked great for trade because of the way he made them so they couldn't be counterfeited.
The only things you need for good currency is first to make it so it can't be counterfeited. Bitcoin's definitely got that covered. The next thing you need is to scale the amount in circulation according to the needs of trade. Since bitcoin has a sort of soft cap of how much can be generated (bitcoin becomes exponentially more difficult to generate), I think this is also covered.
The danger is if there is too little of it then a few can eventually amass it and then control it. That's what I'm not sure of with bitcoin. This is what happened to all those computer video cards, a few created massive bitcoin farms with them to amass it.
Silver for bartering. Gold for BUYING or PAYING OFF a debt. If we go into any money crisis and that could mean no internet, electricity, hard assets like your PMs could get you out of a tight spot. You should have already stacked food, water, baby needs, fuel - like firewood, meds, pet needs etc. Silver will allow you to barter for those things like a ham radio, more ammo, that perhaps you didn’t get around to getting before a crash. Gold on the other hand could pay off your mortgage, move to a more secure location, etc. If I was in America, I would be seeking cheap, out of the way land. we watched a guy who spent $9000 on land with 40 acres, in a secure location. He bought in 3 containers. Fenced the property. Didn’t say he put in security but I bet he did. He put down a well. Solar, and totally fitted the house out with new appliances and furniture. He cashed in some crypto as he was working part time and working on property and felt the urgency to get it done. The total cost INCLUDING LAND?? $81,000.00 ! That’s amazing and he owns it. If you had family, that all felt the same way, on 40 acres that would give each family - say 3 or 4 - a good chance. Community is vital!! You could run goats and chickens instead of cattle and they could supply milk, meat and eggs. I’ll find the video and will link it. But $81,000. That’s amazing!!
https://youtu.be/huALxD0U45g
How about a hard assets backed crypto?
If you know, my dude, explain crypto to me. I see it as an NFT type thing that is just a token with a certain monetary value to it. Basically just an over-hyped stock.
That;s it - I don;t really understand Crypto as they are now. What gives them value? To me they just seem like an alternate fiat currency that is outside the control of the central banks but they are still fiat in that they only have value because people believe they have value. If the cryptos were valued based on hard assets, and had the security of the block chain to keep them from being manipulated - THEN I would understand them.
If there is crypto backed by silver and gold, why would I not just invest in physical sliver in gold? It kind of defeats the purpose.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks mate.
It doesn't matter it it has value or not, the bottom line is if you agree with each other that THIS thing represents your efforts and goods for trade then it's currency. People traded with sticks with notches cut in them for a time because the king created them and ordered that only they could be used to pay taxes, and they worked great for trade because of the way he made them so they couldn't be counterfeited.
The only things you need for good currency is first to make it so it can't be counterfeited. Bitcoin's definitely got that covered. The next thing you need is to scale the amount in circulation according to the needs of trade. Since bitcoin has a sort of soft cap of how much can be generated (bitcoin becomes exponentially more difficult to generate), I think this is also covered.
The danger is if there is too little of it then a few can eventually amass it and then control it. That's what I'm not sure of with bitcoin. This is what happened to all those computer video cards, a few created massive bitcoin farms with them to amass it.