Topic: Gold Bugs Attack Bitcoin In their Ads - page 2. (Read 3675 times)

Definitely over 60 crowd.

I am a bit of a gold bug.  I firmly believe that a third of your long term security should be held in precious metals.

Back in the 90's I started buying gold and silver.  When silver topped $50 I sold a bunch off.  That silver sold for about 9 times what I paid for it.  I took that and bought bitcoin.  At that time was about $30.  I consider myself extremely lucky.  I've since bought more silver after the price dropped below $25.

When I cashed in silver the generic rounds, eagles and maple leafs all brought the same amount.  Coin dealers will try to convince you that buying government mint coins are a better investment.  That is pure B.S. to get you to pay more.  If the SHTF nobody is going to give you a premium for them.  Ounces is ounces.

Gold has no current use as a currency.  Most people out there have no idea what a 1oz coin value in USD is.  Personally I think Platinum is a better long term buy.

I used to carry some Liberty coins around with me.  Several times I used those to purchase things and they were accepted at the $10 valuation that is on them.    I still have a few as a reminder of what subterfuge the US Government is capable of.

That fact that bitcoin does not have any central control is what attracted me to it.  I learned my lesson with E-Gold.

Young enough to not have been through executive order 6102 and old enough to believe physical items can be truly owned.

Nothing that is physical can be owned, you just rent it.

Generally correct, however it's more like 60 and older.

I watched some video advertisement that promised some new breakthrough in computers. It went on and on for over 30 minutes (I read other articles while he droned on). Eventually, it got to the point. The breakthrough was that we were going to get rid of computers, go back to terminals, and run all of our software on server farms....LOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
If he is suggesting anything based off gold, don't bother!

Gold ownership in the U.S. is a right that can and has been revoked!
Sadly the U.S. is not the only place where the government stole the peoples gold.

Gold coins were never exempt from this order.

what a fucking pile of bullshit there.

The reason you can't fast-forward is that this is a carefully crafted sales-pitch, which depends entirely on the viewer seeing the information exactly as presented.

Deception always relies on controlling the when and how your mark receives the information you want them to receive. If people could fast forward 20 minutes and realize its bullshit, no one would watch long enough to get suckered into this scam.

It's the same reason all the scam vids on youtube have comments disabled. Controlling the information the viewer receives. It's just like what Hitler did when he took over all the schools in Germany.

You got an invenstment Co. / hedge fund, but your customers keep calling about bitcoin and how much  people are getting in return.

Then you have to be really aggressive to discourage your customers to try it out.

Buy two goats and get 150% return the first year, and they mow your lawn for free!

fter watching 50+ minutes of this crap the secret investemt is: Gold coins

Sounds like a standard  scammer's sales pitch to me and I've seen quite a lot of these on scam promoting forums.


His presentation was exactly designed to  to hit the exact pitch that could resonate worth people who may support Bitcoin ("secret conspiracy" by wealthy families, government meddling,problems with fiat,little sprinkling of truths etc) while revealing absolutely nothing about this "secret currency", at least not to people who won't subscribe.Exactly like many other scams.

actually they do. If you hang onto a large new lego technic set, eg the 8043, and don't unbox it, it could easily double in 3 to 5 years, infact most do. if you unbox it then it will hold value at worst or still go up a bit.

That why lego technic is so good, the only "toy" you can buy, play with and not loose value on.

The reason is, well the box, plans, inserts, inlays and some parts no longer made, eg I have 1970's / 80'd technic sets.

There is no way to set up the prinitng presses to make those boxes again, it would be harder than a rare stamp. I t captures like nothing else nostalga from an era.

so yes lego technic for large sets probably does out perform gold and many other asset classes. The only thing that would kill you it it probably does not have the depth of market to sell alot into. But 10 or 20 at 100% in 2 years you can do.

Wow, what a waste of time!

This was even worse than TV "Top-shop" commercials... : )

Guy talks about "Secret Currency" for half an hour, doesn't tell anything concrete about it (the whole way) and at the end gives you a link http://ordertracking.stansberryresearch.com/1401CRDWT55/PTRWQ304 to subscribe for money!

Now, to be fair, few things about Bitcoin were in fact "objective", because we really don't know what will happen in the future.

I hope someone watching this video, who didn't heard about Bitcoin before, will check Bitcoin out and decide on his own weather it is good or bad.

That guy has alot of names.
Almost all the incredibly long/boring videos with no skip I hear his voice.

The video is too long, nowhere near the 5 mins they claim.

http://skinnyreporter.com/obamagoldban.html
If he is suggesting anything based off gold, would still apply.
I'm guessing the deadline for gold surrender is Dec. 25th 2014.

Anything you can hold, you can have taken, if not by government then by thieves.

Stansberry Research is a scam. They try to sucker people into buying numismatic gold coins at ridiculous prices.

I believe!


I believe there is no way I'm even watching the video. 

Ah another late dumper trying to get rid of their gold coins. Makes sense.

I have a theory on why gold people are not tech savy; gold people are generally from the older generation (late 40s and older).  I like gold too and may own some someday but I don't see it as a great investment tool because the returns are nothing to dream about and it is very expensive to get started (if using gold as an investment).  I can buy $4,000 worth of gold and if it doubles in 5 years I'll have $8,000 ...nothing to get excited about. 

I don't get why the gold freaks don't sign up to Bitpay or something similar, considering they get paid to their bank in dollars the next day and are exposed to no risk.
You could create a 24/7 live gold/silver trading site with bitpay instead of what they do now which is phone orders only and waiting for wires for 3-4 days.

I have two 20LBS bars of Hersey's chocolate that I can break up and use as currency in case of a zombie outbreak.

Im pretty sure, gas, ammo, clean water and food is a much better insurance policy than a bag of shiny metal - if shit really hits the fan.

  anyone believe this shit ?