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Just thinking out loud, as online wallets are probably here to stay wouldn't somewhere such as goldmoney be a good fit to store your bitcoins if they offered such a service, only measured against other online wallet options of course.

http://www.goldmoney.com/


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Each time you request delivery of a gold bar, or transfer funds from your Holding to your bank account, you will receive an SMS to your handset with a unique PIN code and a description of the transfer. Once you have reviewed the details of the transfer you then simply enter the unique PIN code into the GoldMoney website and the transfer is complete. Without the correct PIN code, the transfer will not be processed. 

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Yes I think definitely because (I presume) there are a lot of Goldmoney users.

I don't think it would happen though after what happened with teh goldgrams payment thing getting dropped.

Going a bit offtopic....

I'm never quite sure what to make of Goldmoney...

On the one hand it seems very well thought out from a traditional point of view. It's well setup legally with borders and everything. More secure in this sense than bullionvault. The whole thing is well designed. Being in Jersey is close enough to give people confidence but it is also outside of the big places and also a value tax area.

However, I think the whole thing is thought up with some presumptions in mind. I can tell they think like the average guy. They expect fairness. They can't imagine a government basically invading a country and stealing all the gold. They can't imagine a government being unfair. But we've seen this with the swiss bank closing, kim dotcom and of course the more shadowy false flag operations in countries from Mali to Norway who don't want to play ball with the USA. So they don't respect borders or laws. If you say this to a goldmoney investor they will say "well if that happens, we really have bigger problems on our hands" as if 2 wrongs make a right.

Also, it depends how much gold you put there. You actually need a LOT to go and retreieve it yourself. So if they find a way of stopping their trading system, anything outside the minimum needed to take possession could be lost.

Any Bitcoin-goldmoney team up would be massive... and get both on the radar even more. As would any gold-btc links - I would guess a better setup would be somebody you trust (massively) using Bitcoin to buy gold overseas and vaulting it for you. 

p.s. totally offtopic... blockexplorer seems to be lagging behind blockchain.info...

Are we there yet  ;D