Metal disks won't go to zero
Bitcoins could
For that reason alone, people should save metal disks and not just bitcoins
My husband basically orange-pilled his extended family this week while on vacation at the Red Sea.
They went from barely knowing what a bitcoin is to wanting to allocate a nontrivial amount of their savings to it. I was more of the conservative one because I don’t want to cause people to allocate beyond their level of understanding.
I have a much lower charisma score than him, so I just kind of watched it happen, and then pulled out a nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 satscard and explained how it works for some physical flair.
They like the orange coin now. Having your national currency get cut in half relative the dollar in 2016, and then having it happen again in 2022, tends to make one more receptive to monetary alternatives.
Discussion
Iron slugs you mean. Get a magnet and check it out. Barely any copper in any coins anywhere. You know why? Too expensive.
You have to be selective with coinage
I think most savings should be precious metals, not random local coin
But I also like US nickels - worth over 5c in metal value already & naturally hedge inflation, deflation, revaluation, & financial collapse