Gold, Silver, Blockchain and Fintech – Solutions To Negative Rates, Bail-ins, Cash Confiscations and Cashless Society
By: Jan Skoyles
GoldSeek.com
Friday, 9 September 2016
I was so pleased yesterday by the announcement that I have joined the Research team at GoldCore as it meant that I could finally start talking about it and was back in a role that lets me indulge in my passion by researching and geeking out on all things gold, silver and money.
As some of you may know, in a previous life I wrote a lot about gold and silver. I took the perspective of someone who was new and curious to the precious metals. I wanted to know more than just how the Fed announcements affected the prices, why demand and supply weren’t enough to predict movements and why history didn’t seem to have taught us any lessons.
After 3 years I stepped away as, to be honest, I was bored. Not of gold and silver but of the narrative, it didn’t seem to be changing and keeping up-to-date with what was happening in other areas of investment and changes in the financial arena.
I spent the next two years broadening my knowledge base, working with startups in the trendy world of fintech and speaking to people about that buzzword ‘blockchain’.
I continued to speak at events about gold but it was refreshing (hopefully for the listeners as well) to provide a perspective that was looking past the push for the gold standard, the (potential) confiscation of gold and theories surrounding COMEX delivery.
Instead I was able to speak about how fintech and other applications of technology were educating both investors and banks about how money could best be managed to the advantage of the consumer, how blockchain is widening the scope for gold as money and how a push for a cashless society is good for gold.
After a couple of years away from writing I return to the space with the same level of curiosity about precious metals but with a wider perspective and perhaps one focused on other areas. It is this that I hope to bring to the GoldCore research pages.
Below I outline some of the areas that I look forward to covering over the coming weeks and months (and maybe years if all goes well!).
Bail-ins and confiscation
The Rest…HERE
