There is no presidential candidate who want to see peace for Palestinians and Israelis more than RFKjr. He is the ONLY candidate engaging DIRECTLY with Israelis and Palestinians on ways to create a PERMANENT peace - not merely one more ceasefire as has been the case for 80 years. His conversations with Palestinians and Israelis through his "Path To Peace" audio podcasts are an example of this:
Jill Stein MD declared Israeli actions "genocidal" in early December 2023, and was arrested and zip-tied at a protest for Palestinian Human Rights in April 2024.
Jill gets my vote again.
Jill Stein (Jewish) is the candidate you failed to notice, Glenn.
"Failed to notice?" Being Jewish doesn't make Jill stein, or Norman Finklestein, Noam Chomsky, or Thomas Friedman any more accurate than Roger Waters or others who hold biased and ignorant views on. the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. People are arrested and zip-tied for breaking the law - their ignorance notwithstanding…. I suggest that you listen to the latest of Mr. Kennedy's podcasts on the subject. There is no candidate with a better knowledge of the history of the region or who is more engaged in a continuous process of listening to Israelis and Palestinians to help them resolve the conflict:
Bitcoin mining draws huge electricity, like smelting aluminum, but aluminum is a useful metal. Bitcoin is a bubble, though it, or something like it, could be used between central banks. The "value" of Bitcoin is speculative, drawn from the real economy, which has problems and is shrinking.
In Texas, the state has extended a deal to Bitcoin miners, low rates, but they need to be turned off when real-economy demand peaks. This enables Texas to increase overall electricity generation from gas, coal, wind and solar, and deal with peaks by just cutting out Bitcoin for awhile. This burns more fuel than ever, but it's stabilizing to the grid.
Team Trump, who I watch closely, but who did not and will not get my vote, is staging a Bitcoin-for-America offensive, likely to get more leverage in the upcoming currency wars.
I think it's a very big problem to rely on a "coin" that is dependent on electricity, a device, and a network. An EMP attack could wipe out a lot of "value".
Amazing speech full of inspiration and clear position on Bitcoin.
Here are a few of my favorite parts:
1. EO on day 1 as President of the United States to transfer 200k Bitcoin to the US Treasury to be held as a strategic asset.
2. Sign another EO directing the Treasury to purchase 550 Bitcoin daily until the US has built a reserve of at least 4 million Bitcoin!!!
3. Sign another EO directing the IRS to issue public guidelines that ALL transactions between Bitcoin and the US dollar are UNREPORTABLE transactions and by extension NON-TAXABLE!!!
4. Sign an EO directing the IRS to treat Bitcoin as an eligible asset for a 1031 exchange into Real Property.
"The Bitcoin community reminds me of how American Politics outta be, fiercely diverse, but ultimately united in our aspirations and our belief in our country and in our convictions that America is worth the fight...it is the currency of hope, it is the perfect currency."
"Most importantly, I promised to secure the United States' position as the global hub of crypto currency, innovation and entrepreneurship, investment and technology."
I like much of what Kennedy says but I think he's been mislead about green energy....if not informed then he's cynically using the uniformed to support his canadicy.
The facts are, and physics doesn't lie, the carbon energy required to produce batteries (and charge them during windless nights) and build wind turbines exceeds by orders of magnitude the energy they save
It's a grift and the data point use to tout they're viability is always zeroed out after construction. Fact: takes more carbon to make a windmill than it could ever save in its lifetime. Let that sink in. They are sold as green, but are huge contributers of carbon.....a grift to make some rich while you feel (falsely) good about saving the earth while actually being part of the problem. Educate yourself, Kennedy should know better, or does but can't alienate those who don't.
The need to have a consumer of surplus electricity (that earns money) at the point of generation is important for thermal such as nuclear, gas and geothermal, as it is with hydro, wind or solar. A demand that can spool up to mop up surplus, or spool down to free supply in seconds is critical to large diverse grids. I agree that the energy density of wind and solar delivery in relation to the embodied energy (or even Emergy) over their lifespan is dubious but here in New Zealand say where 56% of our grid is hydro, wind and solar enable the dams to store for peak and night use. Hydro-batteries. I recently listened to a local expert talking about how Bitcoin mining is critical to the development of new energy infrastructure.
Solar, wind and batteries can play a positive supplemental role in the energy grid, they are not capable of replacing the carbon based major players. In California they are shutting down nuclear power, and taking out hydroelectric dams, the 2 cleanest forms of energy. That should make one pause to consider what the real green agenda is.
I never heard about your policy platform for crypto and other tech issues as clearly as I heard things like your support for the war criminal BiBi. This tech entrepreneur and libertarian, planning now on voting for Trump (I used to VOLUNTEER for your campaign), is wondering: will you continue to claim you're anti-expansionist while aligning yourself with the rabid war criminal and cretin Bibi? I don't trust you. Stand against BiBi and maybe you'll garner some votes, given that you'd be the ONLY candidate not pandering to a war criminal. But will you do that? I doubt it. You've got no backbone and that's why you won't win.
RFKjr does not support many of Bibi's policies. Israel's defensive war against the genocidal Hamas is another story. RFKjr is the ONLY candidate engaging DIRECTLY with Israelis and Palestinians on ways to create a PERMANENT peace - not merely one more ceasefire as has been the case for 80 years. His conversations with Palestinians and Israelis through his "Path To Peace" audio podcasts are an example of this:
You lost me at defensive war. Yet another monster siding with a war criminal as told by the highest international court. If the highest international courts calls it a genocide not a defensive war, and the only ones to agree are BiBi himself, American leadership, RFK Jr, and apparently you and other individuals, give me one good reason to not think you're a genocide apologist? Because to me, that's what you are. You are a genocide apologist like the Holocaust deniers and you will be shamed by history. Don't bother responding. I have no respect for you, or your ilk.
Nailed it once again RFK. Honestly you regularly get me tearing up on how different a world it would be with your leadership of the USA. You spoke with deep knowledge of a wide range of Bitcoin subjects, and clearly actually understand what is possible with this technology; for people's future, for the environment, for ending war, for actually allowing people to thrive globally and not being enslaved to debt and inflation for the vacuous promises of deceitful politicians. If only I lived in the USA and could vote there you would have mine, for those who do live within the borders vote for us without; you are voting for 23 of us. The whole world needs a rational, dignified, thriving and free USA.
He is the ONLY candidate engaging DIRECTLY with Israelis and Palestinians on ways to create a PERMANENT peace - not merely one more ceasefire as has been the case for 80 years. His conversations with Palestinians and Israelis through his "Path To Peace" audio podcasts are an example of this:
My comment when first made was NOT aligned with yours as far as I could tell. FYI, your self description is correct, but you forgot occasional condescending asshole. Just sayin
What's special about bitcoin as opposed to other kinds of crypto currency?
Gold and silver have distinct characteristics that have made them a near universal choice as a monetary unit in almost every society for thousands of years. Anybody can set up a new crypto currency, it's "just" a matter of getting thousands or millions of people to go along with it.
Its a short journey to learn the basics but once you do, 'you get it'... :-) Bitcoin is simply the best monetary technology ever created, and once created it is just maths and code, not politics, theft and deceit. It has many of the properties of gold, but once the technology of the telegraph emerged information started to move faster than physical gold ever could, then we ended up with 'fiat' currency (which basically enables limitless printing by politicians for empty promises and who use it as a tool to transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the upper fractions of a percent). Lyn Alden's 'Broken Money' is an exceptional read/listen, as are Saifedean Amous's books. No hours of learning will be wasted, life shall be forever changed, embrace the knowledge and step forth... :-)
Wouldn't it be great to have our life's financial structure .. educated and built around the skills that are barter based! This way everyone could survive "social security" in a community .. even if there was no electric or gold and silver. Can we learn anything from other financial systems that will not threaten everyone using it! What could we learn from Venezuela or Kaddafi's Libya?
I have thought that too, but barter breaks down very very quickly, even the oldest anthropological evidence shows people were using shells as means of currency 70,000 odd years ago. The 'coincidence of wants' gets almost impossible once you have more than 10 items for trade, I have oranges but you want a banana for example, we trade with a third person who provides the intermediary, but imagine once you get to I want a cell-phone and you have a wooden clothes peg. A gift economy can achieve some things but requires a lot of trust, and only operates in small pools. Lyn Alden's 'Broken Money' really is a fantastic read to clarify these dynamics.
I agree that "barter" has it's problems .. but it is a basic means of transfer and achieves a basic level of economic exchange. How many today .. have ever used a barter system? In view of the current economic situation .. it should become ever clearer that it is not without it's own difficulty. Even those who would like to consider using Bitcoin .. can't find a Bitcoin machine at a bank or box store .. and you have to use the internet and electric grid to access it. If we were able to diversify our "investments" .. so some went to owning land, some to a building, some to useful tools, some to skills, etc. .. then there would be more flexibility. If I'm only trained to sit in a production line 24/7 assembling parts .. and then I'm replaced by a robot .. then my investment experience has only one outlet .. and now I don't know what else to do. Can't grow a garden bc I don't know how!
Yes, barter is definitely wonderful. I’ve traded garden crops with neighbor’s crops. Traded old items with friends. Traded seeds with people online. Traded favors with people I know. It’s not a replacement for capitalism, but I’m glad a lot of people see it as an option and hope a lot more are aware of it. Even stores barter to some extent with their trade ins. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, I suppose.
A few years ago .. I took my mini-van to a local mechanic's shop .. something was happening in the system that wasn't working right and maybe failing. Later my mechanic friend hooked his coded devices to the van and called me later to report that the fuel pump inside the tank was failing. It would mean draining & dropping the tank .. plus the purchase of a new fuel pump .. and reinstalling. The bill was going to be over $1,000. I told my friend that I hoped he wouldn't be offended if I did the work myself .. and he assured me that he understood no problem. I thanked him for helping me with his devices .. and when I went to pick up the van .. I handed him a shopping bag with a sample of several varieties of sweet potatoes I grew and asked if there was any other charges? He said, No, it was just fine and he was thrilled to get the sweets! At home I jacked up the van .. crawled under and dropped the tank and replaced the pump .. total bill was less than $100 for a new pump delivered to my address. By dropping the cost dramatically .. there was way less US currency flowing through my hands. When we multiply this experience with many thousands of similar failing fuel pumps .. we can see the over-all effect of exchanging goods and services that use the US Dollar less.
No. You’re missing it entirely. It’s about equity. A professional welder, organic farmer, Chef, MD, attorney, are all very valuable to society. There should be far more equity and compensation. It’s not about the system. It’s about how the system works.
I swear to God, all Americans should be accompanied by an adult
In a world where our food should be our medicine .. instead of Big Pharma .. more attention and appreciation should be centered around growing better more nutritious foods .. but of course Big Pharma would not have their fast cars, boats, jets, nice homes .. and Small Pharma lives in a hut, poor as dirt, but rich in what is really important.
https://ancestralhealthfoundation.org/book/ is a clean link to Dr. Chris A. Knobbe, MD's most recent book, co-authored with Suzanne Alexander, M.Ed. The Ancestral Diet Revolution is the book's title. That book came to mind while reading some of the info & graphs in your link.
May I suggest instead Fed-diversification via the purchase of Pogs. They are kind of coin-like but actually have some inherent value which I suspect will be retained through the next and final Crowdstrikeout. I believe you can pander to them here: https://pogunlimited.com
Wow, the keynote speech was amazing and the crowd and live stream was onboard! Excellent presentation RFK!
No internet, no Bitcoin.
Potential problem, even without using as much electricity as California...
Stand up for Palestinian Human Rights and get my vote, sir.
There is no presidential candidate who want to see peace for Palestinians and Israelis more than RFKjr. He is the ONLY candidate engaging DIRECTLY with Israelis and Palestinians on ways to create a PERMANENT peace - not merely one more ceasefire as has been the case for 80 years. His conversations with Palestinians and Israelis through his "Path To Peace" audio podcasts are an example of this:
Path To Peace - Episode One: https://youtu.be/HwRUfFxHnoE
Path To Peace - Episode Two: https://youtu.be/p3qNrAItcpw?si=NE2ass08jkLSjJ0d
Jill Stein MD declared Israeli actions "genocidal" in early December 2023, and was arrested and zip-tied at a protest for Palestinian Human Rights in April 2024.
Jill gets my vote again.
Jill Stein (Jewish) is the candidate you failed to notice, Glenn.
"Failed to notice?" Being Jewish doesn't make Jill stein, or Norman Finklestein, Noam Chomsky, or Thomas Friedman any more accurate than Roger Waters or others who hold biased and ignorant views on. the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. People are arrested and zip-tied for breaking the law - their ignorance notwithstanding…. I suggest that you listen to the latest of Mr. Kennedy's podcasts on the subject. There is no candidate with a better knowledge of the history of the region or who is more engaged in a continuous process of listening to Israelis and Palestinians to help them resolve the conflict:
“Path To Peace” Episode Three: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jjr8cvFWJfNyylQWnMhv0?si=MSow2PmUTz-ZivvGXJgi0g
She’s a Putin, GOP agitprop tool. A traitorous wench. Go away.
Its worth understanding how Bitcoin mining is enabling renewable energy infrastructure development; it is here in New Zealand...
Bitcoin mining draws huge electricity, like smelting aluminum, but aluminum is a useful metal. Bitcoin is a bubble, though it, or something like it, could be used between central banks. The "value" of Bitcoin is speculative, drawn from the real economy, which has problems and is shrinking.
In Texas, the state has extended a deal to Bitcoin miners, low rates, but they need to be turned off when real-economy demand peaks. This enables Texas to increase overall electricity generation from gas, coal, wind and solar, and deal with peaks by just cutting out Bitcoin for awhile. This burns more fuel than ever, but it's stabilizing to the grid.
Team Trump, who I watch closely, but who did not and will not get my vote, is staging a Bitcoin-for-America offensive, likely to get more leverage in the upcoming currency wars.
Bitcoin uses too much power.
I think it's a very big problem to rely on a "coin" that is dependent on electricity, a device, and a network. An EMP attack could wipe out a lot of "value".
Nice fairytale. And we all live happily ever after.
I’m ignorant about bitcoin, but I enjoyed your speech and got a tad less ignorant. You are a very impressive and eloquent speaker.
Amazing speech full of inspiration and clear position on Bitcoin.
Here are a few of my favorite parts:
1. EO on day 1 as President of the United States to transfer 200k Bitcoin to the US Treasury to be held as a strategic asset.
2. Sign another EO directing the Treasury to purchase 550 Bitcoin daily until the US has built a reserve of at least 4 million Bitcoin!!!
3. Sign another EO directing the IRS to issue public guidelines that ALL transactions between Bitcoin and the US dollar are UNREPORTABLE transactions and by extension NON-TAXABLE!!!
4. Sign an EO directing the IRS to treat Bitcoin as an eligible asset for a 1031 exchange into Real Property.
"The Bitcoin community reminds me of how American Politics outta be, fiercely diverse, but ultimately united in our aspirations and our belief in our country and in our convictions that America is worth the fight...it is the currency of hope, it is the perfect currency."
"Most importantly, I promised to secure the United States' position as the global hub of crypto currency, innovation and entrepreneurship, investment and technology."
I like much of what Kennedy says but I think he's been mislead about green energy....if not informed then he's cynically using the uniformed to support his canadicy.
The facts are, and physics doesn't lie, the carbon energy required to produce batteries (and charge them during windless nights) and build wind turbines exceeds by orders of magnitude the energy they save
It's a grift and the data point use to tout they're viability is always zeroed out after construction. Fact: takes more carbon to make a windmill than it could ever save in its lifetime. Let that sink in. They are sold as green, but are huge contributers of carbon.....a grift to make some rich while you feel (falsely) good about saving the earth while actually being part of the problem. Educate yourself, Kennedy should know better, or does but can't alienate those who don't.
The need to have a consumer of surplus electricity (that earns money) at the point of generation is important for thermal such as nuclear, gas and geothermal, as it is with hydro, wind or solar. A demand that can spool up to mop up surplus, or spool down to free supply in seconds is critical to large diverse grids. I agree that the energy density of wind and solar delivery in relation to the embodied energy (or even Emergy) over their lifespan is dubious but here in New Zealand say where 56% of our grid is hydro, wind and solar enable the dams to store for peak and night use. Hydro-batteries. I recently listened to a local expert talking about how Bitcoin mining is critical to the development of new energy infrastructure.
Solar, wind and batteries can play a positive supplemental role in the energy grid, they are not capable of replacing the carbon based major players. In California they are shutting down nuclear power, and taking out hydroelectric dams, the 2 cleanest forms of energy. That should make one pause to consider what the real green agenda is.
If you can demonstrate this to him, he will change his mind. I suggest that you do this.
I never heard about your policy platform for crypto and other tech issues as clearly as I heard things like your support for the war criminal BiBi. This tech entrepreneur and libertarian, planning now on voting for Trump (I used to VOLUNTEER for your campaign), is wondering: will you continue to claim you're anti-expansionist while aligning yourself with the rabid war criminal and cretin Bibi? I don't trust you. Stand against BiBi and maybe you'll garner some votes, given that you'd be the ONLY candidate not pandering to a war criminal. But will you do that? I doubt it. You've got no backbone and that's why you won't win.
RFKjr does not support many of Bibi's policies. Israel's defensive war against the genocidal Hamas is another story. RFKjr is the ONLY candidate engaging DIRECTLY with Israelis and Palestinians on ways to create a PERMANENT peace - not merely one more ceasefire as has been the case for 80 years. His conversations with Palestinians and Israelis through his "Path To Peace" audio podcasts are an example of this:
Path To Peace - Episode One: https://youtu.be/HwRUfFxHnoE
Path To Peace - Episode Two: https://youtu.be/p3qNrAItcpw?si=NE2ass08jkLSjJ0d
You lost me at defensive war. Yet another monster siding with a war criminal as told by the highest international court. If the highest international courts calls it a genocide not a defensive war, and the only ones to agree are BiBi himself, American leadership, RFK Jr, and apparently you and other individuals, give me one good reason to not think you're a genocide apologist? Because to me, that's what you are. You are a genocide apologist like the Holocaust deniers and you will be shamed by history. Don't bother responding. I have no respect for you, or your ilk.
*the only ones to disagree, autocorrect
Wow. Never thought I’d hear such a powerful speech on this important topic from a presidential candidate.
Nailed it once again RFK. Honestly you regularly get me tearing up on how different a world it would be with your leadership of the USA. You spoke with deep knowledge of a wide range of Bitcoin subjects, and clearly actually understand what is possible with this technology; for people's future, for the environment, for ending war, for actually allowing people to thrive globally and not being enslaved to debt and inflation for the vacuous promises of deceitful politicians. If only I lived in the USA and could vote there you would have mine, for those who do live within the borders vote for us without; you are voting for 23 of us. The whole world needs a rational, dignified, thriving and free USA.
Have you accepted AIPAC money?
NO.
He is the ONLY candidate engaging DIRECTLY with Israelis and Palestinians on ways to create a PERMANENT peace - not merely one more ceasefire as has been the case for 80 years. His conversations with Palestinians and Israelis through his "Path To Peace" audio podcasts are an example of this:
Path To Peace - Episode One: https://youtu.be/HwRUfFxHnoE
Path To Peace - Episode Two: https://youtu.be/p3qNrAItcpw?si=NE2ass08jkLSjJ0d
What the fuck are you talking about? If I did, I would tell them to shove it up BBs ass.
This was meant for RFK, Jr and his campaign, not sure how you thought anything else.
Well, if you see a little lines on the left, they lied directly up to a comment. Yours was at mine. Learn the platform user level mechanics.
My comment when first made was NOT aligned with yours as far as I could tell. FYI, your self description is correct, but you forgot occasional condescending asshole. Just sayin
What's special about bitcoin as opposed to other kinds of crypto currency?
Gold and silver have distinct characteristics that have made them a near universal choice as a monetary unit in almost every society for thousands of years. Anybody can set up a new crypto currency, it's "just" a matter of getting thousands or millions of people to go along with it.
Its a short journey to learn the basics but once you do, 'you get it'... :-) Bitcoin is simply the best monetary technology ever created, and once created it is just maths and code, not politics, theft and deceit. It has many of the properties of gold, but once the technology of the telegraph emerged information started to move faster than physical gold ever could, then we ended up with 'fiat' currency (which basically enables limitless printing by politicians for empty promises and who use it as a tool to transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to the upper fractions of a percent). Lyn Alden's 'Broken Money' is an exceptional read/listen, as are Saifedean Amous's books. No hours of learning will be wasted, life shall be forever changed, embrace the knowledge and step forth... :-)
You need to pay attention and do some research. Might you know what Defi means? Might 21 million mean anything to you?
Nope, neither of those means anything to me. Tell me about it.
I was asking a sincere question when I asked what was special about bitcoin.
Wouldn't it be great to have our life's financial structure .. educated and built around the skills that are barter based! This way everyone could survive "social security" in a community .. even if there was no electric or gold and silver. Can we learn anything from other financial systems that will not threaten everyone using it! What could we learn from Venezuela or Kaddafi's Libya?
I have thought that too, but barter breaks down very very quickly, even the oldest anthropological evidence shows people were using shells as means of currency 70,000 odd years ago. The 'coincidence of wants' gets almost impossible once you have more than 10 items for trade, I have oranges but you want a banana for example, we trade with a third person who provides the intermediary, but imagine once you get to I want a cell-phone and you have a wooden clothes peg. A gift economy can achieve some things but requires a lot of trust, and only operates in small pools. Lyn Alden's 'Broken Money' really is a fantastic read to clarify these dynamics.
I agree that "barter" has it's problems .. but it is a basic means of transfer and achieves a basic level of economic exchange. How many today .. have ever used a barter system? In view of the current economic situation .. it should become ever clearer that it is not without it's own difficulty. Even those who would like to consider using Bitcoin .. can't find a Bitcoin machine at a bank or box store .. and you have to use the internet and electric grid to access it. If we were able to diversify our "investments" .. so some went to owning land, some to a building, some to useful tools, some to skills, etc. .. then there would be more flexibility. If I'm only trained to sit in a production line 24/7 assembling parts .. and then I'm replaced by a robot .. then my investment experience has only one outlet .. and now I don't know what else to do. Can't grow a garden bc I don't know how!
Yes, barter is definitely wonderful. I’ve traded garden crops with neighbor’s crops. Traded old items with friends. Traded seeds with people online. Traded favors with people I know. It’s not a replacement for capitalism, but I’m glad a lot of people see it as an option and hope a lot more are aware of it. Even stores barter to some extent with their trade ins. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, I suppose.
Yeah. I code for you. You give me my gasoline. If you can.
A few years ago .. I took my mini-van to a local mechanic's shop .. something was happening in the system that wasn't working right and maybe failing. Later my mechanic friend hooked his coded devices to the van and called me later to report that the fuel pump inside the tank was failing. It would mean draining & dropping the tank .. plus the purchase of a new fuel pump .. and reinstalling. The bill was going to be over $1,000. I told my friend that I hoped he wouldn't be offended if I did the work myself .. and he assured me that he understood no problem. I thanked him for helping me with his devices .. and when I went to pick up the van .. I handed him a shopping bag with a sample of several varieties of sweet potatoes I grew and asked if there was any other charges? He said, No, it was just fine and he was thrilled to get the sweets! At home I jacked up the van .. crawled under and dropped the tank and replaced the pump .. total bill was less than $100 for a new pump delivered to my address. By dropping the cost dramatically .. there was way less US currency flowing through my hands. When we multiply this experience with many thousands of similar failing fuel pumps .. we can see the over-all effect of exchanging goods and services that use the US Dollar less.
No. You’re missing it entirely. It’s about equity. A professional welder, organic farmer, Chef, MD, attorney, are all very valuable to society. There should be far more equity and compensation. It’s not about the system. It’s about how the system works.
I swear to God, all Americans should be accompanied by an adult
Great observations! :-D
In a world where our food should be our medicine .. instead of Big Pharma .. more attention and appreciation should be centered around growing better more nutritious foods .. but of course Big Pharma would not have their fast cars, boats, jets, nice homes .. and Small Pharma lives in a hut, poor as dirt, but rich in what is really important.
I love this guy! https://www.youtube.com/@JonJandaiLifeisEasy
The day money broke
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
JFK tried to stop it. You made the same proposal with gold, silver, platinum and bitcoin!
Thanks for https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ , which I've read, now.
https://ancestralhealthfoundation.org/book/ is a clean link to Dr. Chris A. Knobbe, MD's most recent book, co-authored with Suzanne Alexander, M.Ed. The Ancestral Diet Revolution is the book's title. That book came to mind while reading some of the info & graphs in your link.
How about taking a similar position regarding gold? Specifically, why is gold treated as a collectible and taxed at that exorbitant rate?
May I suggest instead Fed-diversification via the purchase of Pogs. They are kind of coin-like but actually have some inherent value which I suspect will be retained through the next and final Crowdstrikeout. I believe you can pander to them here: https://pogunlimited.com