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Not really. It is much easier to lose or make illegible a piece of paper or data than it is to lose large heavy gold or to damage the gold to a degree that seve
by foobarqux 13y ago
Not really. It is much easier to lose or make illegible a piece of paper or data than it is to lose large heavy gold or to damage the gold to a degree that severely reduces its value.
- dragonwriter 13y agoOTOH, its hard to make redundant copies of a gold bar that retain the full value of the original so that if the original is damaged, nothing is lost.
- foobarian 13y agoActually, you could--you could irradiate the gold to the point where decontamination would cost on the order of the worth of the gold itself.
- sejje 13y agoI don't know about you, but no, I can't do that.
- reillyse 13y agoupvote for mentioning the evil scheming of a Bond villain in a serious conversation as a serious answer :)
- foobarqux 13y agoNo one said it was impossible to damage gold (there are easier wayd than to make it radioactive). It's just much harder compared to doing comparable or greater value destruction to a bitcoin address, especially accidentally.