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Hello, I've just been looking at selling and shops seem to be buying for less than they used to when I last raised my head many years ago. Is this now general in the industry or are some places better than others?

How Liquid do you want your investment to be? How linked to spot price do you want your investment to be? I personally ended up buying nothing larger than a half ounce coin and nothing smaller than a 5gm certicard once I'd figured out my feelings. If you want pure exposure to the metal price...

The hdd issue around getting your data back in pretty normal, you wont see the drive again unless you ask and you're lucky. If you buy extended warranty on a computer it should probably be directly with the manufacturer, HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc will usually offer to sell you up to five years if...

I'd happily loan anyone money, the amount I'd loan scales directly with how well I know this person and their reputation. People will often joke and hold out their hands for money and I will give it to them, even people I don't know very well. I just hold the cash or and stare at them. But if...

Do a search, I think importation, etc of bullion is illegal without a licence, I believe that is one of the reasons the bars are all 23k, they come in under some threshold

High frequency trading is scummy rent seeking behavior enough without the fact that the traders get huge or compete discounts on their fuckery

They don't like them because they are hard to fix, the local car industry isn't going to stock JDM parts... I think New Zealand has much less stringent import laws than Australia and parts are more readily available

It's like the plastic you get I your cell phone screen, it's there to prevent scratching on the production line. Rip it off :-P

It doesn't matter, they have legitimized it. People will just find a way to subvert their attempt to tax it now.

Personally I'd go 70% silver 30% other because of gsr. Also spend 45k on unallocated so you don't need to worry about storage and spend 5k to get some misc physical items which are fun and will give you a feel for the metal.

I am not sure that it wasn't satoshi nakamoto's idea when he wrote the original paper, but it is an excellent application. You can choose not to pay fees, that is the default built into the client not into the network.

it was designed to be used as a medium of exchange and cut out the payment processors / enable free trade.

it was not designed as a store of wealth, it is very volatile and easy to steal or lose. it can be used as a store of wealth but I would say you are speculating. sometimes this is a good gamble, esp if you live somewhere like Zimbabwe, maybe not so much in Australia though.

generally a currency does 3 things, it acts as a store of wealth, e.g. there are all sorts of issues with physically holding gold which you should know from being a part of this forum, imagine what would happen if you tried to store your wealth in copper... or crude oil .... or grain. AUD has...

Meh, Bitcoin is first and foremost a medium of exchange, it's excellent at it and will continue to have a future doing that. Never confuse it with a store of wealth, it was not designed for this nor will it ever be good at it. maybe it's descendants will fulfill this role but that is not what...

I'm noticing fixed price seems to be better at the moment, what do you guys think it is worth? Then I'll put it up for sale...

I love them because I'm usually buying less than 20 items. It's so obnoxious when some tool takes a trolly through them and clouds it up for 15 minutes because they are slow at scanning things

my statement about gm food being dangerous isn't based on scientific studies, it's based on risk management. nor am I saying there is anything particularly dangerous about any existing gm crop. What I was trying to get at is that people are changing shit they don't understand ( any basic...

Genetically engineering isn't necessarily evil. I think growing uniform crops (no genetic diversity), making sure the seeds are sterile and can't be resown and suing people whose crops are inadvertently polluted with your tailored genes is. Also, genetically engineering our food is dangerous...

Do it, have some fun :-)