gold bugs should know better. when the news finally becomes mainstream, it's already too late...
I'm still considered something of a freak amongst my friends and co-workers due to my interest in actual physical PMs. Even my Indian ones interestingly enough. It is anything but mainstream. Of course my interest in Bitcoin simply confirms their suspicions.
On the bright side for pretty much all of us here, it's looking more and more like Bitcoin is winding up for a jump to the upside. At least that's what it looks like to me. It would be cool to me to get out of the red on Bitcoin although it is purely psychological. As is the case with PMs, the price of Bitcoin is meaningless in practice except when I wish to buy or sell...and I'm happy with my holdings at this point.
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And on the topic of the convenience of Bitcoin vs. PMs, one might consider a situation where I needed an unusual amount of USD as part of a property purchase and dipped into my PM stash. With a bit of bank-hopping and other planning, I had the USD in the account I needed within a day.
Contrast the above experience with this:
MT.Gox will not release over $26,000 USD