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The guy sold nearly his entire gold/silver stock (hundreds of ounces of gold or something like that) to get in Bitcoin, in the middle of 2011, you do the math.....

Gold is outdated. Nice for jewelry but not much else. Time to move on. 

fiat has been a little scarce around here, but yeah, a bit

muh, I have put my last spare fiat 2 months ago in 25 oz silver. I was, at that moment, doubting if this was a good idea. I was thinking, maybe I should buy 5 BTC with this money.

I still regret that purchase  

I believe silver has enormous upside myself.  I expect to witness the ratio return to the 16:1 area.

thanks for the kudos guys.

i really don't have anything profound to say except that it's been a long, hard journey though there has never been any question in my mind this would happen.  it's great to see Bitcoin coming into its own and i believe we've only just gotten started. the next task is for all the exchanges to get up and over the top of gold and stay there.  we could have some oscillating around the gold price for a while but it's inevitable that Bitcoin moves permanently to new highs and takes the throne of real global money and as the currency of the digital age.

i still feel that there is a small segment of my generation of Boomers that has abrogated its responsibility to leave a world behind us better than the one we've created.  our leaders and financial elite continue to rack up unsustainable amounts of debt and debase our currency for their own benefit and that has always made me angry.  you have to be a parent to understand the lengths one will go to protect one's children.  the good news is that there are plenty of Boomers who feel like me and are going to throw their financial might behind the younger generation of developers and coders who are going to help refine Bitcoin and make it possible for all of us to opt out of the fiat system.  for that is the only way to achieve this as Balaji Srinivasan has so eloquently described.  it's because our voices continue to be ignored.

i'm honoured to be a part of a community filled with such highly motivated and intelligent individuals.  we are all going to change the world of finance forever.

Well said, cypherdoc. 

We have an unbelievable opportunity with bitcoin to make positive change in our world and leave behind something better for our children.