bluemoon

My first coin was a Krug, at first I was underwhelmed with the colour of it but I do like the cheap robustness of it. If CGT wasn't an issue I'd def have more of them.

I get that, but I also know how unfriendly the bureaucratic pen pushers are when it comes to money. I'd love to liquidate lots of gold without hassle, but I can't see a gormless bank clerk accepting at face value that I liquidated 50k of gold I bought over 7 years ago and to stop interrogating me over where the money came from.
Similarly if I buy a house with that liquidated gold, they want to know the source of the cash. Will they just accept it came from liquidated gold I bought over 7 years ago? I doubt they'd give me a free ride over that.
Maybe I'm too paranoid.

Sadly and increasingly that's correct. If you need more than £2500 cash from your bank. You have to order it. Not sure if it actually went ahead but In Australia they were trying to make it illegal to spend more than £10,000 Australian dollars. If there are any Australian members perhaps they could clarify.
Right, I can feel myself starting to go off on one, and its slightly off topic. but final words are. Always use cash in person to stop the march towards a cashless society. and buy small amount, regular, often and from many different sources.   

In a possible beacon of hope, EU MEPs have been found with huge amounts of cash in their homes. So it seems the lawmakers do see the value in cash after all and may hopefully keep it.

Can you see just how broken the system is when people are scared to put the heating on and discussing eating wild animals and it’s going to get far worse for the poorest in society, it always does the rich will never  be effected as the poor will riot and revolt before the rich are effected.    
The masses are like a beaten dog, told when and what to do, don’t go out side, now stand at your door banging pots and pans,  don’t put the heating on or dare travel.  
The social manipulation is font and centre for anyone to see and if the plebs get a bit too shouty they wheel out immigration to distract from them looking at the ones really creating this current situation.
 
 
 

Not just that, I have a serious issue with all the cameras installed everywhere, both speed and monitoring, as they are linked to ANPR and they are essentially a tracking tool, they can know where you are in every moment.
Friend of mine watches this tv program where they follow a police corp in their arrests, I think it's Yorkshire police, I've watched the odd episode while visiting him, I recall in one that the they were after someone and had his registration, all they did was to punch in the numbers and wait for a notification to arrive, if the guy entered the motorway anywhere they would know. With A roads being widened they are now subject to the same amount of control, that means that once you leave the house and hit a motorway or most dual carriageways they know where you are, and I don't like this invasion in my privacy.

I don't know much about bitcoin but even that seems much better than the dystopian CBDCs. Still would rather keep cash alive though.

I don't know much about bitcoin but even that seems much better than the dystopian CBDCs. Still would rather keep cash alive though.

Indeed, but it is the governments who pulled those from circulation. Raw silver as an alternative currency accepted by merchants would take the power away from CBDC, to bring it back to the thread title.
I doubt Tesco will take silver any time soon, but community currencies can work if there is a) organisation and b) a will to do it.
The Lewes Pound is one example but so far all these community currencies have been backed up by a sterling bank account! Assuring for the normies I suppose. The difference would be to make clear that a 1g bar of silver as payment is backed up by itself.

It's a total ponzi scheme but that's because the speculators made it that way. It was only ever meant to be an alternative currency that can't be QE'd or otherwise fiddled with. It was never about getting rich. The "to the moon" lot made it an ugly scene. I never actually bought any bitcoin, it got too crazy from very early on.
That said, I do wish I'd listened to my friend in 2013 when he first told me about it. I'd be rich by now. On the other hand I'm glad I stuck to gold and silver.

It's a total ponzi scheme but that's because the speculators made it that way. It was only ever meant to be an alternative currency that can't be QE'd or otherwise fiddled with. It was never about getting rich. The "to the moon" lot made it an ugly scene. I never actually bought any bitcoin, it got too crazy from very early on.
That said, I do wish I'd listened to my friend in 2013 when he first told me about it. I'd be rich by now. On the other hand I'm glad I stuck to gold and silver.

It's a total ponzi scheme but that's because the speculators made it that way. It was only ever meant to be an alternative currency that can't be QE'd or otherwise fiddled with. It was never about getting rich. The "to the moon" lot made it an ugly scene. I never actually bought any bitcoin, it got too crazy from very early on.
That said, I do wish I'd listened to my friend in 2013 when he first told me about it. I'd be rich by now. On the other hand I'm glad I stuck to gold and silver.

That's a helluva squeeze. A quarter of current allowance!

That's a helluva squeeze. A quarter of current allowance!

That's a helluva squeeze. A quarter of current allowance!

That's a helluva squeeze. A quarter of current allowance!

I make each 1g to be about this size:

Tiny but could work as the lowest denomination! Currently worth about 60p.

PMs were never a shield from an SHTF situation, whatever those grifting YouTubers might tell you. PMs are only a store of wealth - it really is as boring and unexciting as that. When CBDCs come along, the PMs will still store your wealth but a big shift in public consciousness would be required for PMs to be accepted as alternative payments from CBDCs. Maybe if CBDCs prove exceptionally unpopular, but I doubt the public have it in them.

I make each 1g to be about this size:

Tiny but could work as the lowest denomination! Currently worth about 60p.

Reversed or not, if they give you that much grief for an innocent purchase then probably best to ditch them. I closed mine recently because it's an automated interrogation sequence to do the most basic tasks with them. I only ever signed up to the damn thing in 2004 when using eBay for the first time and they didn't take bank payments yet. Certainly not needed now. Goodbye PayPal.

It's still on there isn't it? I'm looking at my £20 right now and it says it on the Queen facing side right below where it says Bank of England. Not sure exactly what it pretends to be promising now though? 20 pounds of shrinking illusions? Now that's a promise they can keep their word on!

I was at Tesco Express an hour ago and there wasn't a cashier in sight. It's often the case that these machines are the only way to pay for your goods. I covered the camera again. Bloody cheek of them.

Last comment from me about self service checkouts so as not to derail the thread - they now have cameras directly in your face with a big screen as though to say "we can see you up close, don't steal anything". I don't like security cameras as it is and I just about tolerate them, but having it right in your face is beyond rude. What I did yesterday is cover the lens with my hand while I scanned my stuff. Yes I know the other cameras can see me but it's the principle. I'll keep doing this, expecting a store worker to eventually ask me why I'm covering the camera. I will tell them why. These are the grossest thing I've ever experienced in a supermarket. I will keep covering them until they hopefully one day get removed.

They see any adults including you as a potential paedophile and will say they're just looking out for your kids. They won't give you a choice to turn the camera off even if you tell them you're their dad and don't want it on. It's very Orwellian.

I took the kids swimming on Saturday, I noticed a security camera in the bloody changing rooms!