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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Gold forum
by
gentlemand
on 07/06/2019, 09:34:57 UTC
I'm a metal rather than a crypto person, but I share the disgust for some gold bugs forums.
Talking about gold-backed stablecoins, you would think to find some interest among them.
The climax of their argumentative level reduce itself to the classic If you don't touch it you don't own it.
They keep repeating it like zombies

I don't really see the point of a gold backed stablecoin.

The main problem with a backed anything is the centralised holding of the asset backing it. Since you're going to have to make your peace with that regardless of the asset you may as well stick with the dollar. If the point of a stablecoin is stability I'd rather erase the modest amount of volatility that something gold backed would produce.

I see no reason to pointlessly lose or gain a few per cent here and there. It would be an annoyance more than anything.