Is there any gold in Fort Knox?

Yes, but if the battery is dead you have to get a buddy to push you while you pop the clutch. :slight_smile:

Or drugs for Bitcoins.

maybe they could exchange all that gold for Bitcoins and only have to only guard one small memory stick. Just hope they have a backup in case they lose it. :smiley:

Maybe Paul & Son should have their committees investigate. Are the bits really there?

The way the Illimunati cleverly keeps even their very existence so secret is quite scary. Not only have they airlifted away all the gold in Fort Knox and, quite likely, debited the bits of Bitcoin, I think I could find a YouTube showing they’ve stockpiled many trillions of peppercorns, another ancient and reverable money.

And watch out for Bitfinger and his plans to destroy America’s bitcoin supply with an EMP bomb.

Does that include the politicians who say a gold standard is a good idea?

Gold? I always thought that Goldfinger stole it all and they just replaced the shiny stuff with movie props for tourists.

No, he just made it radioactive and unusable until the year 2038. It was a patriotic gesture, trying to keeping the gold secure until control of the asylum could be wrested back from the inmates.

Maybe the Feds are actually hiding a gold airplane. On a… well, you know.

As it happens, my dad trained in tanks at Ft. Knox back in the Fifties.

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Damn!

Been there, done that, got the video game.

Which is one of the cases where the movie’s actually an improvement over the book. In the book the plot WAS to steal it all. It’s only in the movie that he has the more rational plan of making his own gold more valuable by rendering inaccessible a relatively large % of the world’s overall gold holding…

Except it’s not that much gold. All the gold in Ft Knox is much less than is produced worldwide in a single year.

So, more interesting question: Why is there any gold there at all? I mean, we’re expending some non-trivial resources storing and guarding the stuff, and apparently we don’t actually do anything with it. If it’s not backing the economy (which it very obviously isn’t), what is it for?

Cite?

On second thought let me save you the trouble:

Gold production is currently about 2500 metric tons per year.

(No idea how this affects your point, since I’ve no idea what your point is. :smiley: )

Well, I dropped a decimal somewhere. So thanks for the cite. :slight_smile:

Still isn’t all that much gold though.

I’ll hang on to it if it’s a problem.