20% VAT in the UK thats why  (can source it from germany but premiums are still way higher than gold)

Gold is VAT free and if you get legal tender gold such as sovereigns or Britannia's they are also capital gains tax free too.

I currently have 37.9 troy oz of gold that fits in a nice small safe.

If I converted that into silver at the current GSR would equal 3032 oz or just shy of 95kg.  I know which I would rather carry around if the shit hit the fan.

21 million bitcoins that are infinitely divisible so not rare

Think you need to get your facts right first -

Comex were about to default not due to the price crashing-

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3247676-did-comex-just-receive-a-physical-gold-bailout-from-the-feds

"
    On June 1, 2015, JPMorgan added almost exactly enough ounces of physical gold to patch the deficiency between supply and delivery demand at COMEX, avoiding widespread dealer default.
    Declassified documents, along with strong circumstantial evidence indicate that it was not JPMorgan, but its most important customer, the US Federal Reserve, that just bailed out COMEX.
    The deficit in world physical gold supply will be at least 606.1 tons in 2015, but may be much larger, and similar incidents are likely in the future.
    The deficit in world gold supply versus demand will grow much larger in 2016 and beyond.
    Even if the entire remaining US gold reserves were mobilized, prices could not be permanently held down to current levels, making gold and gold mining stocks a good deal now.
"

Gold is suppressed not propped up.

Average sustained costs of mining 1oz gold is $919, also add in transport costs, minting and retail costs and I think your 4X value is bullshit.

Wait until china goes pop followed by a few EU countries then we'll see if gold is currently 4X real price!

p.s. I also suggest you read up on current gold/silver demand and shortfalls in physical supply.

If you deal with any member of this forum no matter what the trust rating use escrow - OgNasty has proved himself time and time again to reliable.

Agree with the above, all it takes is for the devs to change their mind and a few key strokes later its BTC to infinity.  Gold was made in the center of a supernova, wont be any time soon that happens again here on earth in a cost effective way.

@ Realbitcoin, what if one or a few of these big BTC holders suddenly decide to cash out their stash, still the top 1% hold the majority of the wealth just like the dreaded fiat, they could easily manipulate the market at will -

BITCOIN TOP-500: 1-50 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321265.0)

1.  BTC 980,000*. Satoshi Nakamoto
2.  BTC 400,000*. HD Moore (AHA)
3.  BTC 400,000*. Dustin D. Trammell (AHA)
4.  BTC 400,000*. Tod Beardsley (AHA)
5.  BTC 350,000*. "Dread Pirate Roberts" a.k.a. "DPR"
6.  BTC 300,000.  Roger Ver
7.  BTC 300,000*. "knightmb"
8.  BTC 200,000. Mark Karpeles
8.5  BTC 182,592. "Loaded"
9.  BTC 174,000*. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA)
10.  BTC 119,000. AsicMiner Management Team of 3 (names?)
11.  BTC 110,000. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
12.  BTC 100,000. "klaus"
13.  BTC 100,000. "mezzomix"
14.  BTC 75,000. "artforz"
15.  BTC 70,000. Erik Voorhees
17.  BTC 30,000. "nakowa"
18.  BTC 30,000. Mircea Popescu
19.  BTC 30,000. "Goat"
20.  BTC 25,000. Chamath Palihapitiya
21.  BTC 25,000. Gavin Andresen
22.  BTC 20,000. Max Keiser
23.  BTC 20,000. "Theymos"

Diamonds and precious stones in general are a poor investment.

Diamonds are controlled by a monopoly - DaBeers, they are not particularly scarce just the supply is controlled.  They can also be recreated to perfection in a lab which DaBeers is currently having a nose bleed over and trying to paper over with propaganda.

ebay rate does = market rate, why pay you £300 more when you can grab it off ebay cheaper 

plus you get the added benefit of paypal protection.

Current market rate seems to be around 6BTC

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=niue&LH_PrefLoc=2&_sac=1&_sop=3&LH_Complete=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xniue+ANDREI+RUBLEV.TRS0&_nkw=niue+ANDREI+RUBLEV&_sacat=0

3.2.1 and red trust lol.

Never gonna happen.

p.s weight is quoted here as 36 lbs per unit so how are yours 22lbs?

http://www.amazon.com/AntMiner-S4-~2000Gh-0-69W-Bitcoin/dp/B00NWHT18A

and here -

https://bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140916100720380cS1tRWd00684

The greek government have no money, how would they source the BTC for the change over.

Much cheaper and easier when you can just print your own currency.

+ Gold & silver

Same thing with quite a few users on here with their "HOLD" approach to BTC no matter what the market circumstances praying for the moon.

mmmaybe = Turn0ff

Posting from the wrong account 

No bullion coins come with a COA, the buffalo coin contains such fine detail in the design its easy to spot a fake.

The one in the pic is still in original mint packaging and defo 100% genuine.

Think you kinda missed the point of that program, they wont admit there is fuck all left and will not allow an independent audit.

Firstly not sure why you find the above funny as a lot of hard working honest normal people are going to suffer.

Im sure Greece existed and prospered pre EU and scamming bankers for 1000's of years.

They need to tell them to stick the debt, default and make a fresh start with their own currency working with Russia/China.

Fuck the bankers.

The Greeks were not in a position to join Europe in the first place.

The books were cooked with the help of Goldman Sachs (with a Eurozone nod) to get them in.

Greece should default, reprint the drachma and take some short term pain and regrow their country by working closer with Russia/China.

Iceland seem to be doing just fine after jailing a few bankers.

Fuck the bankers.

That story is from 2012 so not recent and its tungsten not titanium.

There are fakes and scams wherever there is money present.  Take a look in the scam section of this website and thats not including some of the huge scams that have taken place for some serious amount of BTC.

As with everything due diligence is required.