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bluemoon

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    bluemoon got a reaction from EdwardTeach in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    You could just buy gold with it now? Just a thought.
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    bluemoon reacted to EdwardTeach in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    Sorry to say this but that’s an awful defeatist attitude.
    Even in China under the strict regime of the Chinese government the rollout of their digital Yuen CBDC has stalled because people refuse to use it. So far everywhere a CBDC has been rolled out people are refusing to use it and it’s working. Even in communist China! So have a bit more faith in yourself and your fellow man. All you have to do is continue paying for things using any existing method other than the CBDC. That’s not so hard is it?
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    bluemoon got a reaction from Paul in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Or Elon.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from PhilOdgny in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    It's been quite liberating for me since I switched about 4 years ago. I took an existing Android phone like Google Pixel then installed GrapheneOS over it. GrapheneOS is an Android operating system but non-Google. There are others like LineageOS or Brax2. Android is it's own system, people confuse it for being Google itself but it's not. If installing GrapheneOS replacing your Google Android is too technical then you can buy it pre-installed on eBay or get a phone shop to do it. There are YouTube tutorials too.
    From there it's just choosing the right apps. I don't use Whatsapp because it's tracking your contacts, location, profile picture and running that all through its Facebook ecosystem. I use Signal Messenger which works exactly the same way but is open source so users can know it's fully private and doesn't do any tracking.
    A VPN is the last main protection. It just makes sure your ISP can't see what apps you're using or what sites you visit. ProtonVPN's free version will do.
    If you wanted to cut all ties (I don't do this), you can pull out the SIM card and use only Signal Messenger for calls and texts. But I'm not on the run lol.
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    bluemoon reacted to Paul in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    With banks crashing left and right 
    Reading through it all.
    Who feels a bit warm and fuzzy holding these barbarous relic golden coloured pet rocks  ?? 
     
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    bluemoon reacted to EdwardTeach in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Cash is king. Right now my bank account balance shows £0.00.
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    bluemoon reacted to EdwardTeach in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    Very interesting. I did not know this.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from PhilOdgny in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    Well again, the existing infrastructures are the reasons to not want CBDCs, because we see how it is abused (Canada truckers for example). I think your argument is that the existing infrastructure is therefore a gateway to something similar, but that is the slippery slope fallacy.
    Smartphones can be very private actually, even more private than dumbphones. GrapheneOS with private apps like Signal Messenger. It's only Google Android and iPhones that are bad. People equate them with all smartphones only because they are the 2 mainstream ones. Smartphones do not mean no privacy.
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    bluemoon reacted to EdwardTeach in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    No CBDCs are very different to what we use now and the immediate direct tracking aspect is only a very small part of it. At the moment the government can order a bank to provide information or freeze accounts but they don’t actually have direct access to the account themselves.
    With a CBDC they can directly track and control not just your account but also every single individual transaction you make in real time. This can be done either manually or by using AI algorithms. The key word is ‘Programmability’. A CBDC is a programmable currency meaning that it will only work with ‘government approved’ purchases. At the press of a button the government can decide what you’re allowed to buy and where you're allowed to buy it from.
    So ask yourself, do you trust our current government and every future government to have your best interests at heart and think that they will never be tempted to abuse this power to control you with? I hope so because they’ll have total direct control of your currency and how you can spend it.
    If for example they want to lock you down then suddenly you can't spend your currency on travel tickets but you can still buy food provided it's from a shop within a two mile radius of your house.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from jultorsk in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Land is a good option, at the moment woodland prices are going up because big companies are snapping them up to offset their carbon credits. I don't know if they'd drop in a recession. The other thing is I'd like to buy it behind a trust or something anonymous. Apparently "Russians" (I put that in quotations because that's the media & government's excuse) are still owning major UK properties without an end user individual being identified, despite the UK bringing in new laws last year. I don't know how us small folk can accomplish that, but I'd look into it in case they seize your land for wrong think.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from Skybadger in What's a cost effective strategy for stacking 1oz silver coins   
    I used to think this way about VAT but in reality you sell the same margin premiums back so it shouldn't really make a difference if silver is bought with VAT or no VAT.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from Maxx546 in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Land is a good option, at the moment woodland prices are going up because big companies are snapping them up to offset their carbon credits. I don't know if they'd drop in a recession. The other thing is I'd like to buy it behind a trust or something anonymous. Apparently "Russians" (I put that in quotations because that's the media & government's excuse) are still owning major UK properties without an end user individual being identified, despite the UK bringing in new laws last year. I don't know how us small folk can accomplish that, but I'd look into it in case they seize your land for wrong think.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from ArgentSmith in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    It sure did in 2008, dropped about 30% I think.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from QuantumStacker in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    It sure did in 2008, dropped about 30% I think.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from goldmember44 in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Def spread your assets. If I had property, I'd put some money into a loft extension or something like that, to go with the gold and silver. The other inflation protecting asset would be collectables (like art), but I don't know the foggiest thing about what art is good!
    So as much as I don't like having too many eggs in one basket, I am alas heavy in the gold and silver eggs basket, in the absence of property and collectables.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from MancunianStacker in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Land is a good option, at the moment woodland prices are going up because big companies are snapping them up to offset their carbon credits. I don't know if they'd drop in a recession. The other thing is I'd like to buy it behind a trust or something anonymous. Apparently "Russians" (I put that in quotations because that's the media & government's excuse) are still owning major UK properties without an end user individual being identified, despite the UK bringing in new laws last year. I don't know how us small folk can accomplish that, but I'd look into it in case they seize your land for wrong think.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from EdwardTeach in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Def spread your assets. If I had property, I'd put some money into a loft extension or something like that, to go with the gold and silver. The other inflation protecting asset would be collectables (like art), but I don't know the foggiest thing about what art is good!
    So as much as I don't like having too many eggs in one basket, I am alas heavy in the gold and silver eggs basket, in the absence of property and collectables.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from CazLikesCoins in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Def spread your assets. If I had property, I'd put some money into a loft extension or something like that, to go with the gold and silver. The other inflation protecting asset would be collectables (like art), but I don't know the foggiest thing about what art is good!
    So as much as I don't like having too many eggs in one basket, I am alas heavy in the gold and silver eggs basket, in the absence of property and collectables.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from MancunianStacker in Gold Monitoring Thread £ GBP only   
    Def spread your assets. If I had property, I'd put some money into a loft extension or something like that, to go with the gold and silver. The other inflation protecting asset would be collectables (like art), but I don't know the foggiest thing about what art is good!
    So as much as I don't like having too many eggs in one basket, I am alas heavy in the gold and silver eggs basket, in the absence of property and collectables.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from flyingveepixie in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    I guess we don't. Hope the CBDC pushers dreaming of phasing out cash think of that.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from PhilOdgny in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    I guess we don't. Hope the CBDC pushers dreaming of phasing out cash think of that.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from PhilOdgny in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    Things have gotten so bad that at this point I will only open a new bank account if it doesn't do KYC. What's that, no such banks exist any more? What a shame, it's cash, PMs and crypto then. Maybe some barter here and there too.
    My current bank I've been with since I was 6 years old and they obviously didn't KYC me back then. It's a personal current account and I use it as sparingly as possible. The more we use our bank accounts, the more likely something will trigger the algos to kick up a stick about.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from MBTPSilver in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    I guess we don't. Hope the CBDC pushers dreaming of phasing out cash think of that.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from gji25 in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    I guess we don't. Hope the CBDC pushers dreaming of phasing out cash think of that.
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    bluemoon got a reaction from EdwardTeach in Best bank that allows you to make a bank transfer without blocking ?   
    I guess we don't. Hope the CBDC pushers dreaming of phasing out cash think of that.
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