Talk about meaningless. I can't even.

They first called the Bitcoin CEO, but he was busy committing suicide. Then they called Satoshi Nakamoto, but he only answers the red phone in Commissioner Gordon's office. Then they called Captain Blockchain, but he was waiting on a long confirmation. They tried to call you but hung up because they heard a strange whine on the line.

Sorry, just having some beasty fun.

Ask Switzerland about how their gold repatriation plans are going.

My father died and had things including gold in a safe deposit box that he was supposed to leave to me, they disappeared. If you have to have a separate box just for each gold asset you bequeath, then storage will get expensive.

Someone needs to update this with decoy addresses, nLockTime, and multisig. It's just lowbrow levity.

600M invested by Bitcoin VCs isn't big money to you. It's probably more money than you have anyway. Postmodern skepticism is boring.

Actually they were hidden in my home and I hadn't worn them in years. Nobody knew I had them. Nothing else was stolen. The thief only wanted the gold jewelry. I suspect it was someone that I use to know.

I later had a laptop stolen with bitcoin wallets on it. They were encrypted and backed up.

I had some gold jewelry stolen from me once. Does that count?

I can only imagine adamstgBit rolling in his pile of OVER 9000 pages every night!

Sometimes people do things they regret.

They are allegedly doing the same with paper gold. It doesn't seem to make it any more or less secure. Besides, we only have open exchanges because they are still unregulated. Regulated exchanges will be less able to engage in such activity. That's when real world whales will fill the regulated exchanges through licensed brokerage firms.

I'm just here to pick up cheap posts before they hit 10k.

What do you mean by *should*? Why don't you think he is happy to own so many bitcoins? Maybe he is living on a tropical island and knows his money cannot be unjustly frozen or confiscated by a civil court lawsuit. Maybe he is simply confident in Bitcoin's future.

Maybe ISIS will use this. 

Here we go again!

Compared to Bitcoin gold doesn't seem real... secure. Sure you can keep it in a vault, but then you can't spend it. If you do carry it around, it's far more noticeable for robbers to steal than cash because it's heavier. It's harder to hide in your home because of metal detectors. Even vaults aren't safe without armed guards, which are expensive and sometimes untrustworthy. Bitcoin can be secured in ways that are impossible to steal, even under duress with five dollar wrenches. That way, they can't even be stolen by home invaders. Bitcoin may be volatile, but gold can be easily stolen. They are easily hidden and layered with decoys. They can be time locked better than any bank vault. Bitcoins can protect some of your wealth even when you are wrongfully judged by an imperfect society. With Bitcoin, you can travel the world and know your wealth is secure. You can have much faster access to liquidity with Bitcoin if you really need it. Bitcoin just makes you feel so much more secure. It makes you feel like credit cards used to before all the identity theft and privacy issues. Why would anyone feel personally secure with gold?

Sounds like a party. 

The weekend dip is nearly over.

That describes shadow banking pretty well.