[delta7]

Best to stick with “ Honest weights and measures “, as we are seeing….if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.

[Disambiguator]

Gold. It’s still there when the power goes out or an EMP event permanently takes out all electronic devices including computers.

[PeterPrinciple]

but also confirms the love for creating new games to enable speculation.

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the traders just want change, not stability

[aMorePerfectUnion]

If YOU would like to be on a CRYPTO PING LIST, please pm me.

The Crypto Ping List covers the following:

Bitcoin
Ethereum
Other coins built on the Ethereum blockchain mining
etc.

Thanks! For it - or ag'in it, it'll be a wild ride.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

If YOU would like to be on a Gold & Silver PING LIST, please pm me.

The Gold & Silver Ping List covers the following:

Everything Gold & Silver
Stock market investments in mining companies,
etc.

[Fireone]

This isn’t even a serious question.

[TexasGator]

"if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it."

Very true. I skimmed a small fortune from my investors and after my ponzi scheme went upside down the feds wanted me return it to the investors.

Being savvy, I hid it in my mother's basement.

While in jail, some maintenance dude found it and sold it for pennies on the dollar!

signed, Martin Armstrong

[marktwain]

One of the biggest reasons to own bitcoin is to escape governmental control of the money supply and its inflationary effects.

[philman_36]

No matter how many schemes are designed and put forth people still expect something from nothing and are somehow surprised when they eventually get nothing when things implode.
Silver, gold and gems, for instance, all have inherent value. Even aged whiskey or wine has inherent value to some people.
However, the Constitution says gold and silver COIN are money. I'll bank on that.
What inherent value does crypto currency have? /rhetorical question

[Jonty30]

Dont trust Crypto. It just seems to be a vapour product that creates value from nothing and sells it for real world dollars.

Whomever created it gets real world dollars, while you get vapour bits and bytes that can disappear at any time.

[Jim Robinson]

Neither. Study your Bible.

[airborne]

Can an EMP take out cryptocurrency?

Don’t need to ask about gold.

[Vermont Lt]

An as an aside, bitcoin is one of the top valued assets you can hold. It has been around for almost 15 years.

I am stunned when I read articles or watch the business channels and I hear how people “don’t understand what it is or how it has value.” And these “investors” are responsible for billions in other people’s assets. That’s not just stupid, it’s malpractice.

I am not saying people should buy it or not. That’s not really up to anyone but the individual. I am merely saying that it’s not “new” and it’s not a “mystery”. If you consider yourself a savvy investor and you dismiss Bitcoin as easily as people do around here…you are kidding yourself. And your ignorance is stunning.; Take fifteen minutes and do an internet search. It’s not that complicated.

The biggest financial managers in the world are literally falling all over themselves to get a share of this market. It’s a long way from “tulips.”

Education yourselves.

[Mean Daddy]

...and if you don’t have electricity,no bitcoin.

[EnderWiggin1970]

The public mania around stable coins is the latest evidence that humans are incapable of making rational decisions when they are part of a crowd.

I've done many stablecoin to dollar trades, and in my experience the stablecoins are usually worth slightly MORE than a dollar. Why would the symbol of something be worth more than the thing itself? Contra this authors' biased insults, it is because the "symbol" (the stablecoin) offers greater utility than the dollar itself. With a stablecoin I can store value on my own computer (etc.) without any bank and with greater security if desired (using multisig) than any physical asset. I can send it to anyone around the world for pennies in just a few minutes, compared to a day or more delay and tens of dollars to do a wire transfer (that assumes the recipient has banking access).

Stablecoins thus offer much greater utility and freedom than using electronic dollars, but they are ultimately just a bridge to the public as it transitions to cryptocurrency. They are linked to dollars and other worthless, non-scarce, centrally managed and controlled currencies that will die out soon enough.

[metmom]

Hmm, the choice between something I can touch and feel, and carry around, vs something that doesn’t exist at all if the internet crashes.

[TonyM]

If you can’t pick it up and hold it in your hand it’s worthless when the shtf.

[mabarker1]

Post EMP Supplies. If the electric world fails then the We are screwed. Most people these days don’t know how to use a map and compass so that GPS Is USELESS.
Credit Cards/Checks and Cash will be useless if the SHTF.

Lead in the form of bullets.
Brass in the form of ammo.
Firearms for the above.
Gold in various weights: .5 gram/1 gram/5 gram/10 gram and 1 ounce.
Silver in various weights: .5 gram/1 gram/5 gram/10 gram and 1 ounce.
Other “Precious” Metals.
Potable Water stash and Personal Water Filters plus some Bleach or Shock and Ammonia for Disinfecting Water.
Stable Food supplies dried/canned.
Good 1st Aid Kit
Assorted Alcohol products.

Yeah I know I have gone a bit off the path here. But still, just incase.

[packrat35]

With the Trump Administration headed down the road to higher inflation and the political chaos that results,

Stopped reading there even though the topic interests me.

[packrat35]

I am investing more this year than I ever have before. In fact, investing is my hobby and where I “overspend”.

I add to my stocks every week.
I add to my bitcoin every week
I add to other alt coins every week
I buy silver or gold every other week

Sometimes I buy too much of any of the above and have to slow down, but my wasteful spending is on investments, and I can get it back, if needed unlike most people’s hobbies and bad spending.

Right now when I spend too much investing, I cut out other spending. I am enjoying my profits on stocks, bitcoin, alt coins, silver, and gold go up and I am having fun doing it.

I don’t consider investing to be a chore or drain on resources. I consider it fun.

Really no excuses nowadays not to invest. If you can afford Starbucks everyday, you can invest. Only have $50 a paycheck, use Cash App. Its free.