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G'Day and welcome! I "switched" over here from the Kitco forums many years ago, I had no idea this even existed. Was like a lurking sponge for some time, soaking up incredible information and valuable opinions - it's taught me a heap, and given a huge amount of food for thought :)

Exactly. Cryptolocker isn't hard to find, nor isolate on a network. Thus, even if your first line defences get compromised, it's no big deal to locate, isolate and contain. If your backup isn't up to snuff, however, that's where the real problem strikes - you need to be able to lay your hands...

Cat among the pigeons time... gold on 14th August 1971 was $35.00/oz. Or, 3500 cents. Nine years later it was worth $850, to be sure, that's shy of your $1000, but it's close. Things that make you go "Hmmmm..."? ;)

I will speak for myself only, but I'm "not buying it" - the "attractiveness" of these other "investments" that is (sharemarket, derivatives, whateveryouwanttocallits). Yes, I mine a few satoshi's a day, for some fun, and I've been doing that for quite some time. I don't feel the need to...

I'm guessing folks trying to maximise their price return at a time when spot is down a bit?

Steer clear of Bongo. Make sure your freight forwarder accepts bullion (I suspect, like Australia Post, many won't due to the security risks involved). If it's only shipping you're looking to save, think carefully. If the transaction is between you and a dealer in the USA with freight tracked...

Slightly off topic, but I really like the design on rge Knights Templar coin shown... does anyone know if that's a knock-off of an original (I suspect it may be), and where to source the original?

I wouldn't be so sure on that call of "Yes, you'll be able to buy it, just be prepared to wait weeks". Consider the big dip earlier this year, in India, the population went craz buying gold. At the end of the day (let's ignore the reasons for this, because it wasn't a direct correlation), the...

Thank you for the links, we all knew this was happening, it's interesting to see the photos. Reinforces the old adage, buy from trusted sources!

But, what if Schiff, Rogers, Mannarino and all the others who are effectively saying the same thing, and the one guy called Armstrong is wrong? What if, instead of dropping $400 in January next year, it goes up by $400? You have to realise something mate, these "predictions" are just that...

I think back to the guy that paid 10,000 BTC for a pizza... at today's Gox price that's an AUD$3,580,000 pizza. I hope like hell it tasted good!

IF... and this is still a big IF at this stage in the BTC game... IF Bitcoin does become a relatively widely used currency/payment method, then the fundamentals tell me it has to increase very substantially in value. There will only ever be a maximum of 21,000,000 BTC, and it is a known fact...

Good day to you too, and thank you for a great discussion! :) In my reading above, your main point appears to be that you believe gold has no intrinsic value, and you don't believe that the use of gold as money would solve the current financial issues the world is facing. Let me address both...

None taken whatsoever - in fact, I had thought of the very same parallel myself about an hour after posting it! I found it somewhat amusing - and sobering at the same time :) As for your signature, I can only offer a wry smile, a nod of agreement, and potentially a mutual wish that all our...

I'll leave the debate on whether gold is money aside for the moment, and come back to the analogy which you suggest is flawed. I will run both examples now and reword them to explain better how I interpreted them, and arrived at the analogy I came to. I will also state at the outset that I...

Honestly, I don't collect numismatic coins, so what I say here isn't from first hand experience. I do collect bullion coins though. In the case of numismatics, my understanding is that any sort of washing or cleaning in a non professional manner is highly frowned upon, as, if it's not done...

I've checked your sig. Let's assume that I do believe the PM market is manipulated, so I want to take your advice and get out of that market. But first, I would like to know what I should invest my spare cash in, because not only do I believe the PM market is manipulated, I also believe there...

They walk into a forest, chop down a tree, process that together with some fluffy stuff they pick out of a field. They then turn out these white sheets, and run them through a whole bunch of processes to put this pattern on them. People then wake up early in the morning most of the days of...

This takes intervention from someone else? I think he's doing a pretty fine job of making himself appear foolish as it is... I'm not sure he needs any help in that department! To get this back on track - if I had the power to become invisible, I would actually put a priority on getting into...

Thoughts and prayers with you all at this time - sorry to hear this bad news :(