Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bitcoin

Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by TYPE_FASTER on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:53AM (#15740754)

There is plenty of cheap-ish land in VT/NH you could buy today and go off the grid. Water, heat by wood, grow your own food.

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Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by derekp7 on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:16PM (#15741869)

But you need to be able to supply a private army to defend that land. Just because you own it doesn't keep others from raiding your farm fields in a doomsday scenario.

I guess one advantage of buying the property now (and vacationing there a few times a year) is if it is a relatively unknown area, and you can gain an advantage by familiarizing yourself with it.

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Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by TYPE_FASTER on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:32PM (#15741994)

Picking corn with one hand and holding a gun in the other is going to make for mighty slow harvesting...

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Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by matt_wulfeck on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:09AM (#15740915)

But how does your scenario sit in my worldview that Bitcoin is the best thing ever and I’m going to be super rich some day?

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