The r0ach report 33: The world enters a new dark ages without gold and silver revaluation

in #bitcoin7 years ago (edited)

I see a lot of crypto shills lately try to claim metals are a "barbarous relic" and cryptocurrency is the future. These people do not seem to understand how the financial system is structured. So to address the subject from user Anonymint:

"So what the heck is Exter's (inverted) Pyramid (with gold at the bottom) useful for then?"

When the current debt bubble implodes (thus wiping out the monetary system itself in the process), it requires two separate things to happen afterwards:

  1. People's current liabilities and assets sort of have to be transferred over into a new system in some form, otherwise that's a societal collapse event from that alone leading to a new dark ages

  2. The system also has to be re-capitalized with new monetary units

People like Jeff Berwick erroneously hype "shemitah" debt forgiveness claiming it will be the cure for all monetary ills. That essentially means some guy who took out a $500k NINJA loan on a house and only paid $10,000 gets a free house. One man's debt is another man's asset in the current system, so it's not just the bank that gets screwed in this. That guy getting a free house might mean another guy might not get his retirement paid and so on and so forth.

There would be giant football stadiums, hospitals, malls, grocery stores, farms; the ownership of almost everything you see around you would suddenly be up in the air and nobody would have any valid title to who owns what, causing all supply chains and legal systems to break down entering into a new dark ages. Instead of letting the system collapse and allowing the world to go into a new dark ages because the debt bubble is out of control and can't be serviced, the banks simply have to pull an accounting trick. They just revalue an asset they all hold (gold and silver), which in effect is just reducing the ratio of debt to money supply, and the system goes on as usual and is now serviceable again.

They will wait to do this until right at the last minute like when the next 2008 event happens. If they did not do this, cryptocurrency would be absolutely worthless because you'd be in a new dark ages anyway. So as you can see, metals are the hedge against the debt bubble and the dark ages/societal implosion, while cryptocurrency is a hedge against neither. Yes, "this one weird trick" actually does prevent a new dark ages.

It is my belief that the west screwed up and from the velocity of gold leaving Ft Knox over the last few decades, it is now either entirely empty or almost empty. I believe the reason JP Morgan has acquired such a huge amount of silver over the last few years (while simultaneously rigging the market to prevent it from increasing as they buy such a large amount) is because they were acting as an agent of the US govt to recoup something to act as reserves. The US dollar is legally supposed to be 371 grains of silver, so there is no real issue with them substituting silver for gold as their re-capitalization scheme.

Both gold and silver will be revalued and remonetized in this scheme, but since many countries like India, Turkey, random arab states, etc, have huge amounts of gold, favoring a gigantic gold revaluation number would only hurt the west and make the west slaves of India for instance. So it makes sense on multiple levels to favor revaluing silver to a higher level percentage wise anyway. I believe you will see a minimum of $5k gold, maximum of $10k gold, and jaw dropping numbers for silver in this revaluation, probably returning to historical 15:1 GSR ($333-$666 silver).

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He’s disingenuous for not linking to the start of the original discussion nor the specific post of mine which he quoted from, where he’s being entirely rebuked and made a laughing stock of the Bitcoin oldtimers community for selling BTC at $600 for silver (which has not increased in price hence). Lol! What a hard-headed fool.

All of his points have been refuted. Yet he adamantly prefers to lie to himself and others. He apparently “thinks” (either a lack of careful thought or disingenuous trolling) he has raised novel points (analogous to as he incorrectly thought on another topic) in this latest blog above and a comment below, but these too are invalidated by the points already made which refuted him. This will be further clarified.

It should be noted that I was a prescient silverbug in 2009 and held up to 18,000 oz at that time. I was also painfully aware of the futility of gold and was searching for a solution when I happenstanced on Szabo’s bitgold just after Bitcoin was launched. And then there’s my wretched inability to invest in Bitcoin at $10 because of some unsavory/unfortunate events that transpired in my life after that.

You have "refuted" absolutely nothing and anyone can see the desperation in your post by trying to claim "oh there's some large crowd of people who agree with me", when such crowd does not even exist. Even if they did exist, who cares? They're scammers trying to profit from cryptocurrency pump and dumps and will say anything to try and profit.

All cryptocurrency are designed to centralize, they all have built-in middlemen, and none remove counter party risk. It does not matter how much hand waving and nonsense you type, these are facts. The base of Exter's Pyramid is determined by what assets remove the most risk.

The amount of black swans that can destroy cryptocurrency are more than you can count. The amount of variables that can cause the rent seeking, usurious middlemen built-in to all cryptocurrency to either refuse or fail to process your transactions are higher than you can count. Physical commodity currencies like the noble metals (silver and gold) do not have these built-in middlemen or risk of catastrophic failure where they can just instantly cease to exist. Anyone who denies this fact is a liar and a fraud.

Since cryptocurrency does not even come close to removing middlemen or counter party risk, they rank on Exter's Pyramid somewhere close to airline miles or Chuck E Cheese coupons. Don't bother posting if you're just going to lie. From a fundamental standpoint, it's completely impossible for cryptocurrency to defeat metals on Exter's Pyramid.

Thanks for the information and deep study on the importance of natural metals in future, keepup the great work and thanks for sharing.

Have a great day and stay blessed.

You too, good sir.

Thank you. 🙂

Already sold all my gold and silver to buy cryptos... too late

In that case, you can always pray bitcoin is a CIA created scam, the govt itself is Satoshi, and they will use the Satoshi premine as the reserve. The only problem there is the central banks and govts of the world generally all have to be on the same page about what asset they are revaluing to defuse the debt bubble.

Just about nobody trusts the US govt, and it's clear nations like China and Russia are running...not walking towards metals revaluation with their accumulation. Post-Bretton Woods agreement, no nation was allowed to just wade into the market and start buying up all the gold like they've been doing, so the world has already broken away from the Wolfowitz doctrine of the west and is turning multi-polar.

The only real monetary option of such a world would be metals revaluation because they're just not going to agree on anything else and both China and Russia hold a lot of cards now.

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