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Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Carful trying to get through TSA with that.

TSA doesn't care anymore. They'll stop me after scanning my bag, but it would be easy to move drugs, money or anything. My buddies and I (not so much now) would move good personal amounts of weed no problem.

One buddy got frisked and just asked for a female TSA agent and had a bag tucked in his underwear by his taint. She'd really have to grab onto his balls to find it. If you do coke (I don't and haven't) that is even easier.

I know it sounds boisterous, but I don't give a shit anymore. I can buy weed anywhere I'm going. Leave me the fuck alone. I'm an ass hole and will make complaints if needed against TSA agents. I flipping paying them. Not sure when an 1/8th of weed would take a plane down. Pretty sure there are other problems in that realm.

WookieMan says

TSA doesn't care anymore.

I was joking!

Onvacation says

I could have bought one for $20 but ended up paying $35 ($3 over spot price). I believe it will be worth much more in the future. In 1979 it was almost $50 per ounce.

1 ounce silver was around $48 an ounce during the middle of Obama's first term (April 2011 and with all the Quantitative Easing and Zero Interest Rate Policy [ZIRP] ).

It was $36 around December 1979. The 2011 price is its all time high price (non inflation adjusted).

https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-100-year-chart

If you bought an ounce of silver in December 1979, the inflation adjusted price was $145, and an inflation-adjusted price of $68 in April 2011 compared to the current price of $32.50 :-/

I guess if we get another version of Birdbrain Biden in the White House then maybe silver will increase in value a lot, and as much as Bitcoin has.

I wonder how much a silver would cost if crypto like Bitcoin would not be as popular.

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AD says

1 ounce silver was around $48 an ounce during the middle of Obama's first term (April 2011 and with all the Quantitative Easing and Zero Interest Rate Policy [ZIRP] ).

It was $36 around December 1979. The 2011 price is its all time high price (non inflation adjusted).

Silver’s all-time high is $49.45, which was the metal’s price on January 18, 1980. The Hunt brothers tried to buy it up. I remember being able to get $8 at the local coin shop for a silver half dollar back in the late 1970's.

I suspect my one ounce silver bitcoin will eventually be worth more than a digital bitcoin.

Onvacation says

I suspect my one ounce silver bitcoin will eventually be worth more than a digital bitcoin.

So you buy silver as an extreme hedge or insurance for fiat currency (US dollar) ?

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AD says

So you buy silver as an extreme hedge or insurance for fiat currency (US dollar) ?

I collect coins.

I like the beauty and history of old coins. New coins are cool too.

Bitcoins are boring.

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Bitcoin price hovers around 100k right now. I predict it will go higher. I would not be surprised if the price doubles or quintuples before its ultimate crash. The greater fools don't know any better.

The price is so high because there is so much money chasing so few coins. The concept of "market cap", total coins times price per coin, does not apply to bitcoin as there is no underlying value but the hope that some greater fool will pay more for the bits than the current buyer currently paid.

It's an expensive and wasteful game tying up capital and consuming vast resources just like the silver coins in my safe. The difference is my silver has real substance and real value as well as being aesthetically pleasing. Bitcoins are nothing but zeros and ones floating on ether.

Onvacation says

Bitcoin price hovers around 100k right now. I predict it will go higher. I would not be surprised if the price doubles or quintuples before its ultimate crash. The greater fools don't know any better.

In the past, I recall it used to be that a hedge bet as far as fiat currency was to put at least 10% of assets in a precious metal trust ETF and 10% in oil and gas ETF and the rest in a balanced fund like a 70/30 fund.

When the Bitcoin ETFs were about to be rolled out, I remember "The Mooch" saying on Bloomberg TV while at Davos that he was recommended to his clients to keep about 4 to 5% of assets in a Bitcoin ETF.

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Onvacation says

I could have bought one for $20 but ended up paying $35 ($3 over spot price). I believe it will be worth much more in the future. In 1979 it was almost $50 per ounce.

My bitcoin is up by $5.

Rin says

Misc says

So, with Bitcoin there is an event horizon where it gets sucked into nothingness.

My philosophy ... trade it, don't save it.

Also, it's tied with the Nasdaq flows. If the QQQ starts to go south, sell the cryptos.

what’s QQQ?

John McAfee On Bitcoin

original link

My bitcoin is worth $50!!!

The money has to go somewhere.

Back in 2011 about a year after BTC was created, the silver boom brought it to about $50 ounce, and back to early 1980's all time high price level.

The question is how much of an adoption or acceptance will there be of BTC ? Will it essentially be a staple like 5% of assets of the average investor ? Such as 5% in BTC, 5% in gold and silver and 5% in an oil and gas ETF.

I guess if BTC goes down, then those cashing in their BTC capital gains would roll it into silver or gold as far as hedging against fiat currency.

AD says

hedging against fiat currency

Silver, gold, platinum, guns, ammo and yams; these are all hedges on hyperinflation.

BTC is much more fiat than any of the above. BTC IS fiat!

When the dollar goes to zero, bitcoin goes to infinity; simple physics.

Onvacation says

When the dollar goes to zero, bitcoin goes to infinity; simple physics.

Not sure about that. If society collapses then no one will want to use BTC as much as they want to use the dollar. But yes, I see your point as far as inverse relationship between dollar and BTC.

I wonder what Saylor was thinking about average annual inflation when he said BTC on average will return 30% annually for next 20 years.



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Onvacation says

AD says

hedging against fiat currency

Silver, gold, platinum, guns, ammo and yams; these are all hedges on hyperinflation.

BTC is much more fiat than any of the above. BTC IS fiat!

When the dollar goes to zero, bitcoin goes to infinity; simple physics.

They say you can't eat gold - neither can you eat your bitcoin wallet.

stereotomy says

They say you can't eat gold - neither can you eat your bitcoin wallet.

Lets hope and pray we never get to the point where that concept or rule applies. If we do, then only those who have prepper and homesteading skills will thrive.

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seems like Bitcoin would track with M2 money supply

Onvacation says

My bitcoin is worth $50!!!

Up to $55

I have no problem understanding a 1oz silver coin. But I never understood Bitcoin. Is it a currency?
How so?

The_Deplorable says

I have no problem understanding a 1oz silver coin. But I never understood Bitcoin. Is it a currency?
How so?

People can trade it for goods and services. However, I have seen exactly the same number of people do so as I have seen people use a 1 oz silver coin for such things. That is zero.

Misc says

People can trade it for goods and services. However, I have seen exactly the same number of people do so as I have seen people use a 1 oz silver coin for such things. That is zero.

One big difference between silver/gold and btc is you can toss someone a silver quarter but you can't easily give someone a couple thousand Satoshis. If you can't hold it you don't own it. Bitcoin is not touchable.

Bitcoin as a currency is ridiculous. Silver and gold have been money almost since the concept of money started.

Onvacation says

Silver and gold have been money almost since the concept of money started.

They ain't money now. Try buying groceries with it.

In Arizona you can supposedly pay your State income tax with gold/silver, but I ain't gonna try it. Just a way to get audited for the rest of your life.

Misc says

They ain't money now. Try buying groceries with it.

Constitutionally, gold and silver are the only real money. Digital currency is the dystopian future.

Yes:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

Section. 10.
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts

What happened with that? It's still in the Constitution, so how is it allowed that states are using Things which are not gold and silver in payment of debts.

Grok:

Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution states: “No State shall… make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” This prohibits states from declaring anything other than gold and silver coins as legal tender (currency that must be accepted to settle debts).Why Non-Gold/Silver Currency is Used:Federal Legal Tender: The federal government, not bound by this restriction, has authority to issue currency under the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) and other implied powers (see below). Congress passed the Legal Tender Acts (1862–1863), making U.S. paper currency (“greenbacks”) legal tender for all debts, public and private, nationwide. States must accept this federal currency because federal law supersedes state law under the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2).

You’re correct that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly grant Congress the power to “coin Money” beyond gold and silver or to issue paper currency. Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 grants Congress the power to “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin,” which historically referred to minting physical coins. So, how is federal paper/digital currency constitutional, and why isn’t currency reserved to the states?

The Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) established that Congress has implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause to enact laws supporting its enumerated powers. Creating a national currency facilitates commerce (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) and taxation/borrowing (Clauses 1–2).

In the Legal Tender Cases (1870–1884), the Supreme Court upheld the federal government’s authority to issue paper currency as legal tender. In Knox v. Lee (1871) and Juilliard v. Greenman (1884), the Court ruled that paper money was a “necessary and proper” means to fund the government, regulate commerce, and ensure economic stability, even though not explicitly listed in Article I, Section 8.

It seems contradictory to say it is "necessary and proper" for the federal government to violate the Constitution, which clearly says that the federal government "coin money", and not "print money".

Onvacation says

Onvacation says

My bitcoin is worth $50!!!

Up to $55

$65 a coin now.

If they run out of silver bitcoins they can mint more. As silver gets more expensive unprofitable sources become profitable. If the electricity goes out I'm still holding my coin.

When they run out of bitcoins massive amounts of electricity will still be required to sustain the "coins" still in "circulation". The bitcoin scam uses terms like "coin", "mining", "market cap", "digital gold", and "intrinsic value" to fool the gullible into thinking it is something other than a sequence of zeros and ones.

Silver was money before history and people are still mining it. Bitcoin is not money and the last one will be "mined" in 2140 assuming they don't "fork" more "coins" into existence. Buy it now and hope a bigger fool will pay more for if in the future but it is not an investment, it's a gamble that some fool will pay more than you did.

For now, there are way more fools than bitcoins.

Onvacation says

For now, there are way more fools than bitcoins.

Bitcoin is a finite asset whereas at most there will only be 21 million Bitcoin (or BTC).

Even Larry Fink is supporting BTC as part of asset allocation.

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