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Are bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies used outside of crime and investment?
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magic:

--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2020, 05:40:08 pm ---You can buy all kinds of leaded solder (86 types of 60/40 alone) from Farnell.

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Try to order it as an individual to anywhere in the EU :P

I was talking about sales to general population on platforms like eBay. This definitely is forbidden, and for a few years already. Any pure lead you may buy as an individual is also, technically, illegal. There may be exemptions for products made of lead, dunno.
james_s:

--- Quote from: magic on April 05, 2020, 06:28:44 pm ---I was talking about sales to general population on platforms like eBay. This definitely is forbidden, and for a few years already. Any pure lead you may buy as an individual is also, technically, illegal. There may be exemptions for products made of lead, dunno.

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What do they use in place of those little lead weights used to balance car tires? Ours are still made of lead. As far as I know the little weights used for fishing line are still lead as well though not being an avid fisherman I haven't tried buying those in many years.
MadTux:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 05, 2020, 06:14:53 pm ---And as I said, gold is inconvenient to work with - not easy to split in smaller chunks of value, possibly unsafe to store/carry around (dead easy to steal), etc.

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Why that? A bar of gold, a sharp chisel of good steel and a miligram scale is all that's needed to divide it into smaller chucks.
I see more of a problem with aluminium bronze, brass etc as gold lookalikes, difficult to distinguish on small quantities.
But if I guy comes along, with like a 1kg bar of gold, that I can hold in my hands and he chisels it off in front of me, I would be pretty sure, it's real.

Crypto cash on the other hand, with transaction fees, network crap, verification, wrong address etc...
Not so sure that works, if the world burns.....
Kilrah:
To me gold's value is historical and nothing more. It was the shiny beautiful thing that doesn't degrade and became desirable mostly for its appearance as a status symbol for cultural and spiritual reasons.
Nowadays nobody gives a shit about gold anymore (in Western cultures, different in Asia obviously).

It has some uses as a material but nowhere near enough to justify the value that's given to it.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Kilrah on April 05, 2020, 06:55:28 pm ---Nowadays nobody gives a shit about gold anymore (in Wester cultures, different in Asia obviously).

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Huh? $1675.00 per ounce says quite a few people give a shit about it.

I'd love it to be cheaper than it is because it really is useful stuff but I don't think there's a time in human history that it has been cheap. Even if it dropped to 10% of the present value it would still be expensive stuff. I don't hoard the stuff personally but it has been a pretty safe investment for a very, very long time and unless we reach a point where the very survival of the human race is in question I'm quite confident that will not change. The value may fluctuate but I think one would be hard pressed to find something less likely to end up worthless.
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