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Liberty Dollar is back
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It appears Liberty Dollar is making a comeback as a cryptocurrency that is somehow backed by precious metals?
https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/2018/06/liberty-dollar-becomes-silver-backed-cryptocurrency.html
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"LD2 digital tokens are a warehouse receipt that guarantees its owner/bearer the precious metal stored in the insured vault"
Just another paper promise
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat
At least it is a promise, right? True cryptocurrencies make no such claim, or am I missing something?
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As soon as I saw the word counterfeiter, I lost interest.
The problem with virtual currencies (or "warehouse receipts") is that when they collapse or get shut down by the feds there is nothing left for collectors to own.
By coincidence, I just got back some of my copper Liberty Dollars from Bernhard Von Nothaus after he counterstamped them with a punch he had made to mark LDs that had been confiscated by the govt and then returned to owners as a result of a court case. That, for me, is the real "value" of LDs.
BTW - as far as I understood it, the original warehouse receipts (paper LDs) had a fee schedule that resulted in them becoming worthless over time. For a year or two they maintained full value, but then after that they were periodically reduced in value to pay for the storage fees and insurance of the underlying silver. Not sure if the electronic/virtual ones work the same way.
Not into paper promises.
But I do have a couple of rare Norfed pieces.
Sorry but not for me.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
And just who checks the contents of the vault ... and how often?
What vault?
I am pretty sure the last company that vaulted their stuff was a major reputable metals processor, but there have also been precious metals companies that floated buy/sell transactions and did not necessarily own all the metals it claimed to own on its customers' behalf.
I assume LD is still on the up and up in that regard, but it is a fair question.
More bologna.
This storage scam is decades old, picked up steam in the early 1980's when everyone was hocking all their silver wares to buy silver bullion but were tricked into letting the gold and silver buyers store it "safely" off site. Everybody got ripped off when the stores closed down over night. Peace Roy
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Fools and their Money........
Some People just never learn. They get hosed once and soon they're queuing in another line to get hosed again.
Sad.
I folliwed the case closely and turned all my paper liberty dollars to the feds when requested. And got my silver rounds that were seized returned to me a few month's ago.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc
Amazing... why would anyone get involved with this?? It has 'failure, scam, fraud, loss' written all over it.....This makes me chuckle "The [AUDITOR] works on behalf of the token holders to verify that all issued tokens are backed by the prescribed amount of precious metals." And just who pays the auditor?? Hmmm... I would guess he works on behalf of his employer - When will people learn...Cheers, RickO
I felt sorry for them and bought one prooflike dollar in 2008. And look at this beauty today !
Not interested.