Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bitcoin

Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by nikolay on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:03AM (#15740850)

Doomsday people are crazy to start with! Anyway, something that depends on a lot of electricity (in China!) to keep afloat, is not really doomsday-compatible!

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Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by phkahler on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:09AM (#15740918)

>> Doomsday people are crazy to start with!

Really? I think they're just allocating more resources (both mental and material) to a possible future that most of us think is low probability. There are other ways to fall into the trap than crazy/paranoid ;-)

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Re:Doomsday Preppers Are Starting to Switch from Gold to Bit... by michaelbuckbee on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:30AM (#15741082)

Very few of them seem to have sat down, looked at the risk profiles/probabilities of various scenarios and said "I should start prepping".

In most cases they seem like people who are terrified of a few overly specific (low probability) events to the detriment of their health, relationships and community.

What concerns me is both that there now seems to be media specifically designed to prey upon these people's fears and then turn around and sell them products to assuage those.

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