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Message:: [QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1564847, member: 15199"]Illegal or borderline transactions mainly. Not saying I like the possibility entirely, but many are thinking like the days of horse pulled carriages, steamship only world travel , and weeks or more to get messages to, lets say Poland. Once we have gone far enough ( and some say already) digital will replace current exchange. The digital age of financial transfer will happen within the next 30 years I am sure, although not expecting to have to fully participate due to age and bad judgment at times.. If the governments of he world can track money movements easily and fast, many illegal ( now or then) activities ( unless PM based) will be controlled much more easily. Yes, some innocents will still be entangled, but overall a much better system for exchange. Yes, I know that gold and silver have been the basis of exchange for thousand of years, but there was nothing to compete with it. Now there is, digital resources. How many phones are there with operator controlled activity today in the US? How many digital devices do you use daily? Yes, some Luddites will say  proudly "Not me!" just as some horse driven carriages will trundle down a rural road as the gas/electric/solar driverless cars drive down the modern autobahn. We will eventually trust the digital exchange products more than a piece of gold as the gold plated tungsten bars and coins will be much harder to detect than digital counterfeiting.[/QUOTE]