Fortunately nothing can go wrong with this plan!
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Re: Fortunately nothing can go wrong with this plan!
Holding the underlying assets yourself is always preferred.
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Re: Fortunately nothing can go wrong with this plan!
I love it !
Call me naive and old fashioned but I have more blind faith that some faceless person on the end of the phone at perth mint is going to write my purchase in their little ledger and hopefully give me my gold back sometime in the future, than I have in the "absolute security of an immutable blockchain". (Didn't some hacker empty a bitcoin bank some time ago ?). Anyway how does one know there is actual gold at the end of a "blockchain"..
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Call me naive and old fashioned but I have more blind faith that some faceless person on the end of the phone at perth mint is going to write my purchase in their little ledger and hopefully give me my gold back sometime in the future, than I have in the "absolute security of an immutable blockchain". (Didn't some hacker empty a bitcoin bank some time ago ?). Anyway how does one know there is actual gold at the end of a "blockchain"..
Any takers ?
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Re: Fortunately nothing can go wrong with this plan!
You dont. Ever. Banks have taught us this a million times. This is just another bank holding your real money (maybe).Anyway how does one know there is actual gold at the end of a "blockchain"..
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The analogy here is that if someone steals gold from a bank, that isnt a weakness of gold. Likewise with a bitcoin or cryptocurrency exchange.Didn't some hacker empty a bitcoin bank some time ago ?
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I think holding bitcoin (yourself! not in a bank) is still valuable because you are holding the underlying asset. Bitcoin is the underlying asset.