From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Title: Re: Making Money
Article-I.D.: alice.890
Posted: Tue Aug 31 18:01:18 1982
Received: Sun Sep  5 02:13:49 1982
References: unc.3885

Concerning turning gold dust into bars:  This is almost useless.
For one thing, bars of gold (as far as banks are concerned) are
are practically useless themselves; they generate far too little
interest to be worth keeping around (however, this can, and has
in some cases, been changed)  Selling gold, as Steve Bellovin
said, in either form is not wise.  Gold disappears much to quickly
to sell it (I just reduced a sector gold assay from ~100 to 8
in a day and a half; it was 100% efficient with 500 people),
and for people on small islands, it is essential to get every flake.