> But real gold has been fully digitized. It's easy to buy and hold gold without ever taking physical custody of it. (...point by point gets sillier, until...)

> But real gold has been fully digitized. It's easy to buy and hold gold without ever taking physical custody of it. (...point by point gets sillier, until...) > Right now, the "smart money" knows that the best available "digital gold" is actually the real thing --- bullion. -- Impressively obtuse and confused reasoning! A case study for Brandolini's Law and Hegelian mental gymnastics. -- The commenter omitted the final point, so here's Doctorow last week on "Boss preppers": https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/#guillotine-watch https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/#guillo... "The modern goldbug is a crypto weirdo, and that a weird thing to be a prepper about. It will be a very odd apocalypse that takes down all of modern civilization except for blockchains."