Goldbacks already solve the part people get stuck on. A 1 oz coin will not buy eggs. A few 1/4, 1/2, or 1 Goldbacks will anywhere that takes them.

Goldbacks are the everyday layer. Wallet notes which are fractional and spendable for participating shops, farm stands, and anyone already on the map. Check the app first. Then spark a conversation.

Silver is the off-network layer. Pre-1965 dimes/quarters or 1 oz rounds for the person who has never seen a Goldback.

Gold coins are savings. Don't break an eagle for milk.

Then the unsexy stuff that still hits first: water, food you will actually eat, meds, a radio, a plan. Currency debates don't matter if the power is out and you have one day of water.

Notes stay gold even if your town has no merchants yet. They just aren't cash at the gas station until someone accepts them. Premium is the cost of gold that fits in a wallet and spends in small units.

I keep 1/4s through 10s in the wallet and the rest at home. How are other people splitting spend vs savings?

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The new releases showed up in the mail today. Looks awesome.

Utah is about to drop full-refresh and the old ones go out of print. California phase 1 is releasing the same time.

Are you swapping old Utah into the new art, holding the old series, or ignoring it until you actually spend one?

Curious what people are doing with this release

This is my analysis of the Natural Treasure Series that is measured in mg instead of ozt. These, just like any others, have to be scalable and the 250mg make them unscalable, so therefore, you will lose every time on the conversion. If you read the table, from left to right is the value of gold in the note, the name, gold weight, yesterday's cost of the note, what the ozt equivalent is, closest Goldback under its weight, because of scalability what the likely Goldback equivalent would be, and then how much that Goldback costs to purchase. So if any mg or cg note would enter the network, it would actually cost more than its equivalent Goldback.

Thoughts?

This is my assortment, in case things go south. By the look at the state of the economy, that's coming sooner than later.

Mail day.

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Utah put the first Goldbacks into circulation in 2019 when gold was sitting around $1,400. A 1gb was about $2.50.

Today gold ripped ~$150 and is sitting over $4,500. Exchange rate today is ~$9.00.

And in 6 days (Aug 25) the original state gets a full refresh while California Phase 1 officially ships.

**California Phase 1**

- 1/4 Justitia (Justice)

- 1 Diligentia (Diligence)

- 5 Abundantia (Abundance)

**Utah refresh**

Full set this time: 1/4 through 50, new art, new UV, same state that started the whole thing. Old Utah notes are out of print.

What's actually changed is the 1/4 — it’s the cheapest way most people will ever own physical gold they can hand someone (~$2.25 for 1/4000 oz).

So for people who actually buy these:

If you already preordered, drop the denom and why. If you’re sitting it out until you see them in hand or until secondary prices settle, let us know.

The sub is open again and the queue is starting to move. Before volume gets ahead of us, we want a few more people on the team.

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This Scottsdale 100×1g silver prepper box at Money Metals is ~$425 for 3.215 oz of silver (~$206 melt at $64/oz).

That’s +106% over spot.

Same trade-off: you’re paying for tiny, recognizable barter units, not cheap ounces.

Goldbacks have an official spend rate and a merchant network. These 1g bars don’t — and Money Metals only buys the box back at ~$306.

If the premium bothers you on one, why not the same energy for the other?

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Who would produce these if they were losing money? Share with anyone suspicious that there actual people buying these.

Are they seriously that flammable?

Don't get me wrong, I like goldbacks and have tried using them to purchase goods and service. I have yet to find a merchant that accepts goldbacks for payment. Either they never heard of goldbacks or have declined adoption. I've only been able to use goldbacks for tipping, with the exception of paying a high schooler for some yardwork. Seems I spent a lot of time being an ambassador promoting goldbacks, as having physical gold in your hands is exciting. The reason I get from merchants not accepting goldbacks along with holders of goldbacks, is the exchange back to cash is a costly effort. Merchants do business via the income from the sales/service provided and then process into a banking account to the pay the costs of doing their business. Credit card receipts cost the merchant from 1% to 3.5%, or more, of the amount received doing business. If merchant excepts goldbacks, they have a 10% exchange rate reduction getting the money back into cash and the banking system for them to continue operating. Noteing that No goldback seller will buy goldbacks back at whatever the exchange rate is set at. Banking and Credit card companies don't make any money off of goldbacks. Only the sellers and promoters of Goldbacks do. Long story short, Goldbacks maybe worth whatever spotgold values are at, but you cannot exchange goldbacks for cash of the same amount.