McBride's in Austin.

Where else can you go to for guns, ammo, fishing stuff and coinage?

Bitcoin may be the millennials' version of gold, or tulip bulbs, I suspect the latter.

Bitcoin is an accepted payment for many merchants, Amazon just purchased 2 URLs having to do with crypto currencies... if they accept it as payment i highly doubt it will go away. I believe Japan already widely accepts bitcoin, its a risk just like many other investments but has some huge potential

Edit: In Fact Japan accepts it as a legal form of payment, this happened back in April of this year which is right around the time when it started to shoot up... interesting coincidence

what's a portfolio?

I did not say Bitcoin would go away, tulip bulbs did not go away, rather, their value collapsed to reasonable levels after they were hyper-inflated.

The tulip bulb analogy is an excellent one!

In 2001 when I graduated my step father offered me some gold coins to save or a few hundred in cash to spend as a present.


Yea I took the cash.

It was like $275 an ounce then...

U.S. Gold Bureau in Austin.

My 401K has more than doubled since '09. Growing $6K a month. Happy. "Born 1962 plan" at Fidelity.

I made fun of a guy that paid $65 oz for gold when it first became legal. I wonder if the same investment in stocks would be the same or more now. I remember when people went crazy over gold and silver in the mid 70s people were buying bags of silver coins for upward of $50 oz. it was a slaughter when it went back to $4 oz.

I had a guy at work trying to get me to invest in Ostrich eggs at one time. Diversify.... That is the ticket.

sort of, i just put about 3% in stock in a gold mining company.
Its stock price fluctuates almost 1:1 with the spot price of gold.

Reason: minimal transaction cost to buy/sell, i don't have to worry about physically storing it, buying insurance for it, etc.
The downside, lots of people buy gold to hold in case the S hits the proverbial fan. Zombie apocalypse, N Korea nuclear strike, or collapse of modern civilization. Stock won't do you much good if that's the reason you are buying. If you simply want to diversify a small portion, i would go the stock route.

my .02 and its worth everything you paid for it.

I've invested in copper and lead.

I have too. Got a few 5 gallon buckets of lead and molds to make fishing weights and bullets.

Buying gold?!

Just go find golden bullion in Florida.