Gold Can Stay

in #money8 years ago

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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

This is a beautiful poem by Robert Frost. My personal interpretation on the concept he is relaying is that beauty is transitory and that we should acknowledge this and enjoy it while it lasts.

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Perhaps he is speaking of a sunrise that is radiant and breath taking but only last for a few fleeting moments. I love the idea of the poem because it reminds us to be present and to take advantage of the things that are special we are surrounded by every day.

..... BUT.....

The truth is that gold is the ONLY thing that stays!

Goldmoney has an excellent research team comprised of the most amazing minds you will come across. If you are interested in the precise reasons why only gold can stay, read this article:

Why Gold - the Science Behind Gold.
By Roy Sebag
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/why-gold-the-science-behind-gold

From the article.....

“Over thousands of years of experiments, civilizations consistently resolved that gold was the most useful element to possess and trade as an accepted form of value.”

^ This explains why gold has alway been understood as money. Gold was not declared money by some authority, it emerged as money through experimentation with everything else.

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As explained in the article, this boils down to the unique elemental properties of gold.

From the article....

“Interestingly, gold’s ascension occurred before civilizations had the advanced scientific knowledge of its elemental properties. Humans productively optimized their experiments in cooperation by using gold as the basis for measuring value.”

This is also fascinating. Because gold “stayed,” humans have always understood gold as money... before there was any way to back test it scientifically.

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Gold is money. Gold is savings.

Philosophically, existentially, and for some excellent literature... nothing gold can stay.

In the physical world, and as a mechanism to protect your families accumulated wealth,

Gold stays forever.

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The cubes are fantastic! — and i promise you this: i will be ordering a pair of dice asap. Also, the above article was really well done. I’m going back to check some of the links, but i really like the angle: gold transcends time and culture and is intrinsically known to be something of great value.

Keep on stacking gm! I’ll do the full sign up and freak out soon enough ⚡️😜👍⚡️

Thanks for paying my blog a visit @thedamus! Love your work

Back ‘atcha @goldmatters

— maybe Menē should consider making a 10g Au pendant version of the Steem round...
I’d bet they’d sell like, well, 10g Au pendant versions of the Steem round!!! Lol, and it would bring a lot of hungry eyes to the Mene site.

...just one of the many thoughts i have re: your two amazing gold projects.

😳😳😳

Good idea @theadamus! That would be pretty cool to have a gold or platinum steem round!

1/10th oz, or 5g pendants with varying designs would appeal to a lot of collectors maybe...

U can't destroy gold, it's forever. Man those cubes are so dope. I'm gonna sign up to gold money one of these days..

We will have an improved onboarding soon, I’ll let you know when its up and running

Man that poem takes me back to 10th grade when I did a huge paper all about Robert Frost. This is one of my favorite poems by him!

Seasons come and go, people come and go, but gold lasts forever!

Lets drag that paper out! I want to see it

Let me see where i might be able to find it! I have a few ideas!

Earliest stuff I have found so far is regarding Mark Twain and his satirical style that I composed in 2008. Still a few places left to check!

Lol awesome effort

I can put this on the blockchain! Hahaha

Gold is amazing. Did a recent post on some history of gold and silver and it's amazing how even back in the day governments reduce gold coins size and purity to reduce its value and inflate the currency.

Thanks for sharing this. Learning more about gold everyday.

Yes! The same thing happened to the Roman Empire ....

Very good information @goldmatters! I read an entire book once on how different "money" evolved, in different ancient cultures. It fascinates me, as all economics do.
The most memorable was about an isolated island village who decided rocks would be their money. When you purchased a house or large item, you paid for it with a giant rock out in the ocean your family owned, that was too big to move. The new rock owner was deeded the big rock in front of a witness. You didn't have to worry about anyone stealing it, like your smaller rocks.

Gold is much easier (and smaller) and will be an enduring store of value, that never changes.

That's the thing about gold, it has been in use as real money for thousands of years. It doesn't deteriorate or tarnish. Our bank notes of today will be gone with the wind tomorrow while gold will still be there.


Love this poem!

Awesome tattoo!! Good find

So true. Nothing remains forever. Gold is money and savings...had has been for thousands of years.

Yes! Exactly!

With gold fever, woman melts with gold, man melts with woman

wuaoo I love gold but better is the bitcoin;) Greetings brother @upvote

Thanks for reading

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