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RE: Happy New Year! 🥂 An Exciting Year is Awaiting Us, An Oath to the Blockchain #1 💟

in #poetry7 years ago

great article. One question, what are your thoughts on crypto currencies that will come out and are backed by gold or silver? One is set to come out in January, I am not sure if the silver is already mined or future mining, which means a world in difference in value. Bringing Bitcoin mainstream was not the best idea, as I know how CME can manipulate prices and pump and dump, without actually owning all. I am new to this site and crypto currencies, so I hope if they do try it, they get shut down, but time will tell which currency emerges in the next 3 years.

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A crypto being backed up by silver/gold is a great thing, enabling an easy way for anyone to collect their share with the ease of a mobile device. Only thing is though, you need to be certain that the one providing these services and claiming it to be backed up, has actual credentials (be trustworthy). I quickly heard something mentioned in one of @Stan's interviews about a gold backed company with actual credits and government ties that was about to partner up with Bitshares.

I was kind of curious when someone was going to try that. It seems like something that would have already been done, but to back that you would have to have a serious financial incentive up front. As you mentioned I could see it with a mining situation but to have the silver/gold needed to back a 30,000,000 or so project would be pretty crazy.