How #PreciousMetals Can Help Protect Your #Wealth From Hackers. How Precious Metals Can Help Protect Your Wealth From Hackers – Truth Unsealed. By Stefan Gleason Could your wealth be hacked? It’s a threat most investors overlook. But they do so at their own peril. If elections can be hacked, then so can bank and brokerage accounts, as well as any online platforms for digital currencies.
More than five months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the “Russia hacked the election” conspiracy theories still won’t go away. They’re expanding to also implicate Russian hackers for meddling in elections in France and elsewhere. According to the Guardian, “An investigation by the FBI has concluded that Russian hackers were responsible for sending out fake messages from the Qatari government, sparking the Gulf’s biggest diplomatic crisis in decades.”
The Russian government has repeatedly denied involvement in these hacking campaigns. In recent months, major e-mail providers and e-commerce sites have been hit by hackers. Think Bitcoins are “hack proof” due to cryptography? Electronic Banking Is Vulnerable to Hackers. Challenging the #Dollar: China & Russia’s Plan from Petroyuan to #Gold. Challenging the Dollar: China & Russia's Plan from Petroyuan to Gold | Europe Reloaded. If we were to identify what uniquely fuels American imperialism and its aspirations for global hegemony, the role of the US dollar would figure prominently. An exploration of the depth of the dollar’s effects on the world economy is therefore necessary in order to understand the consequential geopolitical developments that have occurred over the last few decades.
The reason the dollar plays such an important role in the world economy is due to the following three major factors: the petrodollar; the dollar as world reserve currency; and Nixon’s decision in 1971 to no longer make the dollar convertible into gold. As is easy to guess, the petrodollar strongly influenced the composition of the SDR basket, making the dollar the world reserve currency, spelling grave implications for the global economy due to Nixon’s decision to eliminate the dollar’s convertibility into gold. Most of the problems for the rest of the world began from a combination of these three factors. No One Fears You! Is Your Bullion Real or Fake? - Expert Prepper Blog. Just about all bullion investors worry about counterfeits. Those concerns are magnified when someone is buying for the first time. Stories about fake coins from Asia and gold bars drilled and filled with Tungsten have been in the headlines recently.
But the truth is, counterfeiting is just about as old as the concept of money itself. Fortunately, making phony coins or bars isn’t easy. The equipment involved is significant – it takes far more than a color printer and the right paper. And making fakes good enough to pass a few simple tests is darn near impossible. Some testing equipment, such as mass spectrometers and sonogram machines, are expensive and impractical for the typical person to use. However, here are some lower budget ways you can determine whether or not the bullion you hold is genuine: Size and Weight Gold and silver are extraordinarily dense metals – much denser than just about any base metal (even lead and mercury in the case of gold).
Sound or “Ping” Testing Magnetism. Is Your #Bullion Real or Fake?