{"id":28210,"date":"2017-11-22T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28210"},"modified":"2017-11-22T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:57:17","slug":"selling-out-of-precious-metals-buying-bitcoin-very-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28210","title":{"rendered":"SELLING OUT OF PRECIOUS METALS &#038; BUYING BITCOIN\u2026. Very Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header clearfix\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/selling-out-of-precious-metals-buying-cryptos-very-bad-idea\/\">SELLING OUT OF PRECIOUS METALS &amp; BUYING BITCOIN\u2026. Very Bad Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>There is a new trend by individuals in the alternative media\u00a0community who are now selling out of precious metals and buying into Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.\u00a0 While this may seem\u00a0like a good idea, especially when Bitcoin and the cryptocurrencies reach new all-time highs, it is likely a big mistake.\u00a0 Now, I am not saying that individuals shouldn\u2019t invest in cryptocurrencies.\u00a0 Rather, it\u2019s a lousy idea to sell all of one\u2019s precious metals holdings and put it all into Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Sean at SGTReport published a short video in which part of the headlined was titled as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tmWDz_z_ulA&amp;t=5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>SILVER BULL CAPITULATES<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 In the video, Sean explains how past frequent guest and precious metal analyst, Andy Hoffman, has sold out of all his silver and is now only in Bitcoin and gold.\u00a0 Andy explains in his interview on Crush The Street that he sold all of his silver this summer as he really has no interest in it.\u00a0 He goes on to say, \u201cBecause, in a digital age, I just don\u2019t believe people are going to store thousands of pounds of silver hoping that the gold-silver ratio is going to come down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have to tell you, not only do I find this sort of thinking, utterly preposterous, I also find it quite troubling that analysts who have been promoting precious metals for the past decade are now implying that gold and silver are no longer high-quality stores of value.<\/strong>\u00a0 I disagree entirely with this faulty and superficial analysis.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons why I believe it is essential to hold most of one\u2019s wealth in precious metals than in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.\u00a0 However, the most important factor has to do with the fragile nature of a highly technical complex system that allows Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to function.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELLING OUT OF PRECIOUS METALS &amp; BUYING BITCOIN\u2026. Very Bad Idea There is a new trend by individuals in the alternative media\u00a0community who are now selling out of precious metals and buying into Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.\u00a0 While this may seem\u00a0like a good idea, especially when Bitcoin and the cryptocurrencies reach new all-time highs, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4174,15611,16631,17132,1103,1339,643,647,12073,4491],"class_list":["post-28210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-digital-age","tag-digital-money","tag-electricity","tag-internet","tag-power","tag-precious-metals","tag-srsrocco-report","tag-store-of-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28211,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28210\/revisions\/28211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}