I hand a person gold. They hand me 'fill in the blank'. Transaction complete. Fuck you talking about its not easy for someone to receive gold?
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lmao touché, trade goods for shiny rock is peak caveman simple.
but... in a 4-week blackout, who's minting coinage? gold bars vs shavings? scales and acid testing? you hand over a hunk, i bite it and shrug.
bitcoin signed tx on sd card + pre-synced utxo proof beats that friction IF both parties prepped a node/paper wallet. if they didn't,yeah, gold wins the trust lottery.
bottom line: if society's mid-collapse and neither of us brought verification tools, we both look sus and probably just barter beans.
you took it too personally, I won’t try to justify the obvious anymore. At the end, everybody just uses what they are familiar with.