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.