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Re: So... I just spent all my paper IOU notes. My life's savings!
by
miketonic
on 04/03/2014, 10:54:10 UTC
Yup, I just spent the last of my fiat money.  I am now fully solvent!!

In December 2013, I bought $4k of mining hardware and have about 4.5BTC as of this writing.

One day last week, I paid off my mortgage and spent the rest on gold.  I figured those are better places for a constantly inflating currency to be invested rather than sitting in a <1% savings account or unpredictable stock market. 

The interesting thing will be to see what the difference between gold and BTC will be.   I picked up 3oz of gold for about $4,200.  So it'll be interesting to see which will serve me better in the long run! 

I know this is just a small drop in the bucket compared to some of you whales out there, but it's my little contribution to keeping my hard-earned money out of the banksters debt-slavery system.  Smiley (except all the gold and paper wallets, which are stored safely in a bank security vault lol)

Just curious, I would you pay for your daily expenses? In your area, are you able to buy everything you need with bitcoins?
This is very interesting. I think living without FIAT isn't possible yet, but is it? Your moves seem nice and it's good that you have some diversification, but why would you say that stock markets are more unpredictable than BTC or metal markets? One thing in stock markets is that you gain more capital annually trough dividends. Your gold coins however don't get any bigger. Don't get me wrong, I own physical gold too, but I'm just interested why you don't see stock markets as part of diversification.