Quote from: LeGaulois on July 18, 2024, 05:36:33 PM

Quote from: Lucius on July 18, 2024, 10:08:05 AM

I'm ok with what you say but not about the bad side of Gold and its exploitation. We have the tendency to forget there are many things that can be done to limit the environmental impact. It was a point that concerned the Minamata Convention (a decade ago). But as you know, as long there is a lot of money to make, they don't really care about environment.
As you can mine bitcoins with green energy, you can mine gold more correctly, a kind of "green gold". There are labels such as Fairmined and Fairtrade.

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some persistently try to impose their agenda about how BTC mining pollutes the environment and consumes too much electricity

Funny because yesterday Vladimir Putin has warned of the “uncontrolled growth” in electricity consumption required for cryptocurrency mining in Russia.

If one would have to choose from those, i don't get why wouldn't everyone in here automatically pick bitcoin. I mean it's not like we are in goldtalk forum or something.
And even though i see bitcoin's future more uncertain then gold, i would pick btc without a question. Try to smuggle that gold if you need to flee the country and see what the airport security says when you go trough the metal detector with a bag of gold. But when you are going trough with bitcoin key, it doesn't weigh anything and be cashed out pretty much everywhere and fast, unlike gold.

You don't even need to carry usb stick. Just divide the key into parts and use some secure places in the net to store them seperately.