JohnA1

The less they know, the better. Anything you give them, can (and will) be used against you under circumstances that suit somebody else's interests Why share private data?

Also note the inflation adjusted figures mentioned in the article are 'official' CPI, far from the real ones. It is very undervalued, over 20x compared to the 1980s high

Climate change, Inclusivity and Diversity

Totally agree. I felt nervous and had nightmares 😄 even for stuff from Royal Mint or BBP. You never know, people make mistakes, good fakes can sneak through and you could end up with a lemon. Depending where you live, see if you can find someone experienced/equipped to verify anything you might feel uneasy about. If you have several coins of the same kind, then it's easier as they all should be weighing the same, dimensions and magnetic properties identical etc.

Good price, eh!

Acid? Nooooooo🫣

Fantastic article, full of wisdom and technical insight (not!) - alchemy dreams recap for the 21st century. I'll save it next to the 'gold asteroid' meteor Elon Musk was going to mine, crypto-dudes were all certain gold was a dead duck back then. Or the vast gold reserves discovered in Africa less than a year ago. All such distractions totally fogotten now.. As seen on Twilight Zone season 2 episode 24, "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"

Sovereign is someone standing on his feet, a ruler - even of one's fate Fraction of a sovereign is...just not sovereign, is it?🧐

An ultrasonic tester can be below £100 and can verify the uniformity/thickness of the metal in question. If it has something else in it (or bubbles) the thickness will come out wrong - just make sure the bar has at least two opposing parallel surfaces. Other shapes may not work with such a testing method.

^^^^^ This

A lot of harmony there..

Why am I getting the impression that they are obeying orders to start disrupting the traffic of undesirable items - like anything that bypasses the banking system. Banks already play silly-billy playing the 'fraud protection' song..🫢

They did. The US just took it's sweet time, and returned (eventually) different bars. Originally they claimed it would take 5 years to return them! That raised a few eyebrows

Go figure - if it's been remelted it would be impossible to tell That's one reason it is money, no extra counterparties involved, no interlopers. Try that with bitcoin🤣 once the wallet addresses have been exposed. The 'agencies' have picked up people even after they'd gone through tumblers (liquidity was low at the time) I'm currently reading 'Gold Warriors' and it is eye-opening to realise what has been going on behind the scenes to shift stolen gold through Asia, Europe and the US. Lots of dead bodies left behind

As stored wealth goes, gold has always been the ultimate aim. Either with outright violence, subtrefuge, deception, confiscation or whatever else This much for the recent myth that government 'securities' and all sorts of promisory notes are money. They are not. The Romanians could have dug up deep underground tunnels to hide their gold, like others do (often boobie-trapped and burying in the workers and engineers so no loose ends are left) Now they're still asking for their gold back. Possesion is 9/10ths of ownership There's a lesson there

https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/the-gold-treasure-of-national-bank-of-romania-that-was-sent-to-moscow/

A Kilo version would be really nice eh?

https://www.bis.org/publ/work906.pdf These are the guys pushing the 'paper is money' narrative Yet the percentage of gold they calculate for portfolio risk minimisation is kinda larger than one would expect..

Tried to transfer a few hundred squid and 'computer says no'🤬 Not a new payee either. WTF Says now restrictions are £1000/day for all payments altogether. It used to be £1000/day for a new payee because supposedly they are not 'verified'. Now it's the same limit for all of them, even if it is a few hundred here, a few hundred there. They're tightening the noose it seems..

pm sent

Yet another update: Barclaycard updated their app yet again. In order to use it you have to agree to a long list of terms and conditions. Many pages long. Bit towards the end is the 'paperless only' thing. I declined their offer. Sod them. No paper = they can claim whatever they want whenever they want and you've agreed to it.

It was also indisputable and immutable It could be used as proof of fraud, depending on the content. Now they pretend that everything has to be 'electronic' for speed and efficiency. Bollox. Without paper and proof of postage from Royal Mail you've got nothing. They can claim anything.

And never trust email through a phone. If you can't see the real link behind, don't click anything. They rely on people accessing email through phones because they are more vulnerable. I would only respond to an email from a PC, where I can see the real link behind. This is a big gotcha.

A fool and his money are soon parted. I like the 'police officer' twist. As if you know who they work for (what is the so-called police station registered as?) As if you have a contract with them. At least with the bank you have (heavily skewed) T&Cs to fall back on