[ExI] Silence in the sky-but why?

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:47 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013  Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>> If it's all hopeless then what's the point of blabbing about it? Let us
>> enjoy the little time we have left! And I still haven't heard if you've
>> accepted my bet about the shortage of uranium, remember $1000 can buy a lot
>> of cans of beans that will come in handy after the apocalypse.
>>
>
> Perhaps if you bet $1000 worth of gold at today's prices, or $1000 worth
> of today's Bitcoin you'll get a bite... :-)  Since everything is going to
> hell, $1000 may only buy ONE can of beans after the apocalypse.
>
>
Maybe they should cut out the squabbling over "storage of value" in
arbitrary currency and just bet directly in beans.  (or cans of beans if
one is extremely confident)  I guess we'll have to figure some exchange
rate from USD->BTC->PAB.  It'll be interesting because demand for Post
Apocalypse Bean supplies goes way up just as the exchanges for BTC cease to
exist.
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