One idea is to open an account on vaultero.com. You can use BTC to buy allocated gold which is owed by you and physically stored in a vault in Switzerland. When you need to spend it, you can sell the gold online for BTC and move it back into your wallet. As a store of value, no one can argue with gold, but as a practical currency in a crisis, BTC may prove its worth next time TSHTF, as you say.
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the thing i do not like about "saving in gold via gold accounts" is that when you buy it direct through a dealer it tends to be a lot cheaper than opening one of these new gold savings accounts to buy gold.
perhaps its safer to diversify into gold/silver/bitcoin. since we appear to be heading towards a cashless society then perhaps bitcoin has a role to play(there are also bitcoin debit cards) and gold/silver are historically hedges against bad economic climates
Don't know what you mean by "saving in gold via gold accounts"... I'm talking about buying ACTUAL gold and storing it in a vault. There is a fee to purchase, probably around 0.5%, as well as an annual fee for storage costs (about 0.5% a year). Whether you consider that expensive or cheap depends on your point of view. I view gold primarily as insurance, a form of sound money and as a hedge against inflation and fiat currency collapse - not as an investment per se.
you can now save in gold by having a gold (physical) savings account ( https://www.goldmoney.com/bitgold ) where you buy a small or large amount of gold each month and the physical gold is added to your account- and the $£ value of your account fluctuates with the spot price of gold