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Author Topic: Bitcoin or Gold? What would you pick?  (Read 298941 times)
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February 15, 2016, 10:32:34 AM
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On last days gold increased its price, i expect that now remains at this level for some time. And now i'm waiting to see if bitcoin moves at the same direction, stock markets are going down, oil price down, economy down, ... bad economic news are good for gold prices and i expect the same for bitcoin price.

I agree, only I think that Bitcoin is even better to pick today than gold. Collecting gold puts your life at risk especially in countries which are unstable. Bitcoin on the on the contrary is much safer to have because it's something most people do not regard as valuable.

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February 15, 2016, 11:12:41 AM
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I too prefer BITCOIN over GOLD, securing gold would be an additional cost, you need  vault and you can not carry it all the time. While BTC can be easily kept even on your mobile device and always on the go.
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February 15, 2016, 11:22:54 AM
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I too prefer BITCOIN over GOLD, securing gold would be an additional cost, you need  vault and you can not carry it all the time. While BTC can be easily kept even on your mobile device and always on the go.
yeah agree. you can save bitcoin anywhere with phone, laptop, pc, tablet, etc and flexible also

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February 15, 2016, 11:02:16 PM
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I too prefer BITCOIN over GOLD, securing gold would be an additional cost, you need  vault and you can not carry it all the time. While BTC can be easily kept even on your mobile device and always on the go.

But what if your mobile phone gets stolen or damage?  Grin lol..just kidding..bitcoin is better option at a moment to invest money, as the price volatility allows us to make some quick profits in quick time.
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February 16, 2016, 12:25:12 AM
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Why pick? Why not get a bit of both and see how things work out? It's never good to be so extreme.
yeah correct, anyway they are not competitors. the price of gold and bitcoin can also ride together, why not grab his second pick. I think it would be better to invest in both
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February 16, 2016, 04:31:47 AM
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This has been posted many times and answered many times.  You cant buy goods online using gold. Gold dont have a blockchain So i go pick for btc.
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February 16, 2016, 04:51:57 AM
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If security is a real issue, theres always other options to hold ownership on gold.

Theres been a site that issues gold as well, but its bitcoin also associated. I just forget the name, i think it was called bit something.

Also holding notes or shares that a company mines gold is also another way. And still hedge it with bitcoin at the same time.
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February 16, 2016, 05:35:01 AM
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of course,i will pick bitcoin,with same value,bitcoin have more easy to carry than gold Wink i think almost all people will choose to bring smartphone or laptop with $300 bitcoin on wallet,than bring 0.5 KG gold with bag.

Do you realize that .5kg is equal to 17 x1oz bars/coins ... right
Personally, I would rather carry a single 1oz bar/coin that it worth the entire amount or more.

When robbed, thieves usually take the laptop and all electronics... but they don't usually strip search you looking for gold coins.

you should browse the http://www.mint.ca section of gold coins, they have 7.8g (gram) coins above $600CAD

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February 16, 2016, 05:38:25 AM
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of course,i will pick bitcoin,with same value,bitcoin have more easy to carry than gold Wink i think almost all people will choose to bring smartphone or laptop with $300 bitcoin on wallet,than bring 0.5 KG gold with bag.

Do you realize that .5kg is equal to 17 x1oz bars/coins ... right
Personally, I would rather carry a single 1oz bar/coin that it worth the entire amount or more.

When robbed, thieves usually take the laptop and all electronics... but they don't usually strip search you looking for gold coins.

you should browse the http://www.mint.ca section of gold coins


Provident Metals has a great selection of gold coins, and you can pay with Bitcoin.  I have bought from them six times, all paying with BTC.  They have the usual "bullion coins" (Krugerrands, American Gold Eagles, etc.) as well as foreign gold, and even old (pre-1933) American $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00 gold pieces.

This will get anyone interested started:

http://www.providentmetals.com/bullion/gold.html

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Hide your gold well.  It is better at home rather than at a bank (many banks do not want you putting gold in a safety deposit box).  Also, IMO the risk of theft from your home is LESS than the risk of it being seized from a safety deposit box or similar.
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February 16, 2016, 05:44:58 AM
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Provident Metals has a great selection of gold coins, and you can pay with Bitcoin.  I have bought from them six times, all paying with BTC.  They have the usual "bullion coins" (Krugerrands, American Gold Eagles, etc.) as well as foreign gold, and even old (pre-1933) American $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00 gold pieces.

This will get anyone interested started:

http://www.providentmetals.com/bullion/gold.html

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Hide your gold well.  It is better at home rather than at a bank (many banks do not want you putting gold in a safety deposit box).  Also, IMO the risk of theft from your home is LESS than the risk of it being seized from a safety deposit box or similar.

I have noticed them lately ... just not impressed by there 'new' Canadian website pricing items in US$

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February 16, 2016, 05:55:50 AM
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If security is a real issue, theres always other options to hold ownership on gold.

Bitcoin should be the solution for security issue. If you are looking for security then there is no other way to secure your money rather than putting it in bitcoin. Gold has alot of secuirty issue even if you put it at the most secure place since gold will most likely be targeted unlike bitcoin which is totally secure if you put it in cold wallet
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February 16, 2016, 06:04:00 AM
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If security is a real issue, theres always other options to hold ownership on gold.

Bitcoin should be the solution for security issue. If you are looking for security then there is no other way to secure your money rather than putting it in bitcoin. Gold has alot of secuirty issue even if you put it at the most secure place since gold will most likely be targeted unlike bitcoin which is totally secure if you put it in cold wallet

I think BTER would disagree with you on that point
http://www.coindesk.com/bter-bitcoin-stolen-cold-wallet-hack/

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February 16, 2016, 10:24:58 AM
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Bitcoin or Gold ? I like them both. But with gold I save them. And Bitcoin must I spend and buy it. Bitcoin is invest. Gold is save.
That is my opinion. But I think that it will be a good mix if you have them both. But Bitcoin can be more worth I think.
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February 18, 2016, 09:34:05 AM
Last edit: February 18, 2016, 10:34:29 AM by TPTB_need_war
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Neither! Gold will be banned everywhere and Bitcoin is irreparably broken.

Until now, all crypto coins have been marketed to investors.

The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation.

Once a predetermined number of coins have entered circulation, the incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees and be completely inflation free.

Bitcoin the better gold.

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This redudancy + partionning paradox is extremely hard to understand for a newbie who's native language is not even english...

It would be really appreciated if someone could rephrase this paradox summing up with easy terms what is the issue and its consequencies Grin

I am years ago of your computer science knowledge and I may stay years ago of your knowledge in this field for the rest of my life since it isn't my study field.

Thank you in advance.  Grin

Hopefully r0ach and others can offer their laymen's summaries.

What you need to know is that Ethereum as it is currently designed can't scale just as Bitcoin can't scale, but the level of scaling which the current Ethereum can do is much less than even Bitcoin's current limitation because verification/validation of Serpent scripts takes more resources than verification/validation of ECDSA signatures.

For both Bitcoin and Ethereum, this is not just an issue of block size limitation. The issue is that in order to scale, the mining becomes more centralized. I think you will should note that Bitcoin and all other major coins are entirely centralized already and on the precipice of failure (all of them! study my links!).

Thus Ethereum proposed Casper which is a design that attempts to use sharding (a.k.a. partitions) to improve scaling decentralized. But I explained in this thread, that can't work. To reduce electricity consumption, Ethereum also proposed PoS-like consensus-by-betting with forfeitable deposits. PoS has known failure modes that violate Nash equilibrium.

So the point of all this is that Ethereum and all the rest of the crypto coins have not yet solved the fundamental issue of decentralized consensus.

If you want to read a theoretical discussion of why, I did that too.

Okay that is enough from me. Adios.


I do not believe they will confiscate gold for there is no intention to return to a gold standard as Roosevelt did in 1934. He confiscated the gold FIRST to profit from the dollar devaluation in 1934. He also wanted to end people hoarding cash outside the banks, which is the same problem we have today which they are addressing with moving electronic and cancelling high denominations. However, what they will do is confiscate gold if you tried to leave the country with it or you travel with it domestically using the Civil Asset Forfeiture laws. That would be the same as if it were cash.

It does appear that old pre-1965 silver coins may be best for small commerce. However, keep in mind that the government may declare any transaction in gold or silver to be illegal and they then get to confiscate all assets involved. They can easily just pass a law and declare anyone dealing in some off-currency exchange to be “money laundering” to hide from taxes. These people will do whatever they can to retain power.

Also keep in mind that as they become more and more desperate for money, all legal forms used today will vanish at the order of any judge.

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So will they confiscate gold? I doubt in a wholesale basis, however, they have shut this down as far as gold being portable. You cannot jump on a plane with a suitcase full of gold as you once could decades ago. So just be prepared, they can make it illegal to conduct a transaction in it.


Governments everywhere are going broke. Despite what people think, gold may yet make new record lows under $1,000 in the months ahead. Canada has sold off the majority of its gold reserve into this rally, leaving less than a ton remaining. There is NO intention of returning to a gold standard. They are moving fully electronic and intend to eliminate cash everywhere. In so doing, the “official” view behind the curtain is that they no longer need gold.

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I have been warning that gold is not really the cornerstone of government nor is it interesting to big money in the context of physical possession. It is a hedge against government for the average person. Governments are turning away from gold, and as they cross that line and head into the sovereign debt crisis, they will sell everything and hunt every person to grab as much wealth as they can to keep their jobs. That is what we are dealing with.

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February 18, 2016, 09:37:52 AM
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Dont forget we dont all live in the "land of the free" lol.

Pretty sure Gold wont be banned in my country.
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February 18, 2016, 09:43:30 AM
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i do hold gold at the moment and a few bitcoins, i am not interested to buy more gold at this point but i would invest some money into bitcoin for sure, what ever the future holds i dont mind,but if the price soars as everyone expects by the time of halving, its going to be great. 
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February 18, 2016, 10:12:32 AM
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Pretty sure Gold wont be banned in my country.

All the countries are coming under the umbrella of the G20 power, which have agreed to harmonize enforcement starting in 2017.

There will be no place to run and no place to hide.

You continue your delusion at your own peril.

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February 18, 2016, 10:23:41 AM
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BTC and Gold, l trade BTC for Gold on this site


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February 18, 2016, 10:33:43 AM
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Go with both.
However if you wanna be  very flexible and quick in leaving when shit hits the fan(economy down, bail ins, dictatorship,gold gets mostly banned, cash only exist in small bills,) Bitcoin will have some advantages compared to gold.
Let's say you want to migrate to another country in oversea somewhere, hiding gold in your luggage would be a bad option if you own a bit more of it.The same goes for cash.So Bitcoin would be the right choice here.
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February 18, 2016, 10:37:07 AM
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Go with both.
However if you wanna be  very flexible and quick in leaving when shit hits the fan(economy down, bail ins, dictatorship,gold gets mostly banned, cash only exist in small bills,) Bitcoin will have some advantages compared to gold.
Let's say you want to migrate to another country in oversea somewhere, hiding gold in your luggage would be a bad option if you own a bit more of it.The same goes for cash.So Bitcoin would be the right choice here.

Won't help you as they will ban Bitcoin to fiat transactions. And maybe even ban Bitcoin transactions that don't include a KYC id. The Chinese miners already control 65% of Bitcoin's mining. China can dictate the protocol. China has vetoed any block size increase so they already proved they are in control of Bitcon.

I explained in my video why you can't fork away from that. Impossible.

The end is near. You fools are trapped.

There is no solution.

Weep.

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