Comment on Is gold investing a scam?
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 22 hours agoIt’s the crimping and the precision shape that’s hard to replicate, you need a press.
Comment on Is gold investing a scam?
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 22 hours agoIt’s the crimping and the precision shape that’s hard to replicate, you need a press.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
And that would be doable, realistically. Though there’s a bit of plastic on the bottom that would be quite difficult to replicate.
The point is they’re only useful as a currency. And really only to a society that can’t really make much. If society advances again to the point where a used bottlecap can be replicated, other systems will already have been established to make it less attractive.